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...ensuing question-and-answer session, President Kagame addressed topics ranging from Rwanda’s female-majority parliament—the first in the world—to Chinese and Indian investments in Africa...
...next week so its members could go home to campaign for re-election, could create such an entity on short notice. On Wednesday the answer from several key lawmakers was no, but on Thursday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told President Bush she'd keep the chamber in session longer if needed. It's also possible that the Treasury and the Fed could come up with an improvised solution that doesn't need congressional approval. Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke visited Capitol Hill Thursday night to talk over the possibilities, and Paulson said Friday that he would "spend the weekend...
...here. He read from a prepared statement and took no questions. His statement warned that the six people who had received subpoenas and did not show, including Todd Palin, may be held in contempt by the legislature (he didn't mention, though, that the legislature won't be in session to do that until next January). And he explained that seven other witnesses, who have said through lawyers that they too will not appear, weren't given subpoenas because the investigator had relied on the word of assistant attorney general Michael Barnhill that they would testify without a subpoena. That...
...Speaking from experience, I can say that such criticism is reasonably well founded. But luckily, the inverse of this purported drawback is also true. Girl Talk’s “studio” albums (though the term “studio” implies the presence of session musicians, which play no part in auteur Gregg Gillis’s process) pack the same infectiously danceable punch that his performances do. His online-distributed June album, “Feed the Animals,” is no exception. Within the context of Girl Talk’s mashups...
Tutors said that leading fewer tutorials meant that they could spend more time preparing for each class session. They also said they expected students to have a more dynamic experience participating in group discussion and analysis...