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...Washington time, with the first "flash" from The Associated Press since the death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005. But the President had learned of it 11 hours earlier, in an Oval Office meeting with a few top aides. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told Bush that "there had been a strike in Baquba and they thought that they had gotten al-Zarqawi." Snow said the President responded with understatement: "That would be a good thing." Bush appeared relieved and pleased, and was more inquisitive than jubilant, Snow reported...
...speech that comes just a week after he was nominated by President Bush to serve as the next Treasury secretary, the post that Lawrence H. Summers held before becoming Harvard’s president. The Senate is widely expected to confirm Paulson, and he could succeed John W. Snow at the position as early as the beginning of July. But when students wrote down Paulson’s name last year on ballots handed out to the graduating class, they were choosing him as a representative of the private sector—not a public official. A committee composed...
...women’s fencing teams, was getting there on February 12, the morning of the Ivy League tournament at Columbia. He took one last look through his bus window at the worst New York City snowstorm on record, a blizzard that dropped 26.9 inches of snow on Central Park, and grabbed his phone.“We were in the middle of it,” Brand says now. “And I was in contact with my administrators here [at Harvard] and we were ready to bail. I was ready to bail. I was really concerned...
...best school in the world?” I would think after a Shakespeare section with a foreign teaching fellow who had hardly mastered conversational English, let alone the ability to express the rich and intricate arrangements of the great playwright. I’ve shivered in snow, rain, and even the occasional burst of sunshine after sitting through mind-numbing physics labs where menial and tedious tasks such as tracing lines on electrode-conducting paper have doubled as deepening my understanding of electromagnetism. Not quite. I’ve even laughed dry cackles of skepticism after emerging from hour...
...base camp. The Tibetans reported that he was dead, according to the dispatch, and the base camp officials informed his family.According to Osborne, Hall refused to keep his gloves or hat on and kept inching towards the edge of the cliff. They had to anchor Hall in the snow to keep him steady.“He later told us that he thought he was on a boat. And he wanted to get off that boat,” Osborne said.Osborne’s team radioed the base camp and waited with Hall for four hours, warming...