Word: slating
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Perhaps it's residual behavior from the campaign. Obama was something of a blank slate coming into the primary season one short year ago, and he used a loose network of "advisers" to draw politically convenient pictures of himself for voters. When he needed to look strong on Israel, for example, he brought in Dennis Ross, a former top negotiator who has sided with Israel in policy disputes over recent years. When he wanted to look conservative on money matters he tapped the guru of anti-inflation policy, Paul Volcker. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...Portuguese public opinion on accepting detainees. But Anthony Dworkin, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says it sets the tone for what the E.U. hopes will be a fresh start once Obama takes office. "It is a symbol of Europe's eagerness to clean the slate and forge a different relationship," he says. But the price of European cooperation will be the expectation that from now on the U.S. fight terrorism on the basis of international rules and norms rather than on the unilateral improvisations that created the Guantánamo problem in the first place...
...sucks. I used to be governor of New York.' ELIOT SPITZER, when asked how he was enjoying his new job as a columnist for Slate magazine...
Kenen stressed that the large class size will hopefully be only temporary since about half the full slate of Gen Ed classes will be taught next year. How large the course selection will be, however, is unclear at present...
...When we don’t have a full slate of courses, we don’t think it’s fair to say, ‘Here’s a course for Gen Ed, and sorry, only 20 people can take it,” Kenen said...