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...appearing weak on national security next to Hillary Clinton and Edward Kennedy that drove Hill Republicans to take on the President. It was a feeling that he was treating them with contempt. Even as McClellan spoke about appeasement, there was grumbling that the White House still hadn't contacted Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert directly to talk matters through, and a House leadership aide noted that "with the veto threat and then the accusation that members were being xenophobic, [the President] alienated them even more...
...currently enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in the first-ever Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program, and am already using this practical science to help transform the lives of my clients, my family, and myself. I am an executive coach, author, and motivational speaker. I see every day how important it is to teach people about goal-setting theory, the science of hope, the importance of volitional behavior to change well-being, and how many areas of one’s life are affected by learning how to create more engagement, flow, happiness and gratitude in one?...
...stuttering slowly began to improve when he was about 17- or 18-years-old, but it was not until his late twenties that Shell really started to speak fluidly. Although he says that a stutterer never really stops being a stutterer, he is now a composed and controlled speaker...
...military officer in Iraq until 2007, rather than rotate out after the customary one-year tour. Rumsfeld has also asked General John Abizaid, head of military operations in the Middle East, to extend his term for another year, Pentagon sources tell TIME, and Abizaid agreed. An Arabic speaker, Abizaid popularized the idea that the war on terrorism should be known as the Long War, a concept the Bush Administration has adopted. Long and costly would be more apt. Bush last week asked Congress for an additional $72.4 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the tab to nearly...
Unfortunately, this is not the first time Muslims on campus have been alienated. In 2002, the campus was in an uproar because a commencement speaker, Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, was to deliver a speech entitled: “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” Based simply on the word “jihad”—which means “struggle”—and without familiarity of the actual speech, members of the Harvard community tried to pressure Harvard to have Yasin censored or removed...