Word: speak
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Does being a woman president add complications? It does. I represent the aspirations and expectations of the women. I must ensure their expectations are met. I must open the doors for other women. And people want me to go and speak, to tell of my experiences. I find myself so crowded, trying to represent the women of Liberia, the women of Africa, sometimes even the women of the world. I enjoy being out there, telling people women are going to change the world. But at times I wish I was granted some benign neglect...
American leaders usually speak of Africa in the abstract, as a problem in need of solution: a place of epidemic, hunger, genocide or coup d'etat. On Saturday, Barack Obama, the first U.S. president of African descent, came to Ghana to speak about the continent in the personal and the particular, as his own ancestral homeland for which he now offered a vision. (See TIME's photos of Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
...what specifically are French voyagers faulted for? The Expedia poll says French travelers are the biggest skinflints, the worst tippers and the least able or inclined to speak foreign languages. They also finished next to last in terms of their politeness and behavior. (The worst offenders in both those categories were - wait for it - Americans, who were also designated most likely to complain...
...office faced with an unprecedented economic crisis, and he focused on it successfully during his first 100 days, giving two excellent speeches about the need for a stimulus plan and general economic reform. He has lost that focus as his other initiatives have come online; he has failed to speak with precision or clarity about the bills wandering through Congress. He has failed to make clear what needs to be in those bills - and what can't be - if he is going to sign them. He also needs to update the public on his stimulus plan, especially now that...
...much of the foreign business community in China. "People here are intensely interested to see if there's any substance to these charges, and to what extent the government will make them public," said the director of one foreign-business association in China, who did not want to speak on the record. "If this is seen as political, it could obviously have a chilling effect." A Rio spokeswoman said the company "is aware of no evidence that would support such an allegation...