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...That's not something a candidate like Mike Huckabee necessarily excels at. The same afternoon as the Obama event, 18 miles away Huckabee was speaking to a Rotary Club gathering at the Nashua Country Club. During the question and answer session, Jim McCormick, a semi-retired consultant from Nashua, challenged Huckabee on his stance on whether creationism should be taught at schools...
...session Giuliani missed was a master class on Iraq. He would have gotten briefings from General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki; and Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's former No. 3 civilian, among others. All told, says a staffer for the Iraq Study Group, "they had 40 of the top experts on Iraq brief them for hours. They had access to anyone they wanted...
...last afternoon, Gromyko disappeared into the depths of the Kremlin, where the treaty was approved at a special session of the Politburo. In the early evening, Gromyko drove to the guest villa on Lenin Hill, where Scheel was staying, and the two made arrangements for the initialing of the agreement the next day, and for the exchange of two accompanying letters...
...bring about a full repeal of the laws, leaving O'Donoghue to wonder if a change will ever come. "These things keep carrying over and you just wonder when it's all going to be done," O'Donoghue asked. "When we get the final report? After the next legislative session...
...just three tracks ("core," "college prep" and "college prep with research"). The curriculums are individualized and fluid--some students take college-prep English but core-level math. I sat in on the Algebra II class one day, but it wasn't so much a traditional class as a study session guided by the teacher, Darren Ripley. Kids worked from different parts of the textbook. (One 11-year-old was already halfway through; most Americans who take Algebra II do so at 15 or 16.) Occasionally Ripley would show a small group how to solve a problem on the whiteboard...