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During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS...
...considered one of the "irreconcilables," a key leader unacceptable because of his extremist ideology and alliance with al-Qaeda. Omar, through Taliban spokesmen, has repeatedly asserted that he has no interest in peace talks unless all foreign forces leave the country. Karzai, for his part, asserted in the same speech that any militant seeking reconciliation must be willing to respect the Afghan constitution, the very document that Omar rejects as heresy. "It is ridiculous to think that Mullah Omar would be willing to come to the negotiating table now," scoffs a NATO commander. "This is the man who draped himself...
Wadir Safi, a professor of international relations at Kabul University, says Karzai's speech directly contradicts his platform of several months ago, when he called on lower-ranking Taliban to reconcile but ruled out negotiations with avowed enemies of Afghanistan, like Omar. Karzai's recent trips to both the U.S. and London, where the Afghan president was criticized for his inability to stabilize his country, crack down on corruption and stop the narcotics trade, may have precipitated the about-face, says Safi. "What he said [on Sunday] was not based on analysis but political survival. He knows he is losing...
...Chiem ’10, co-president of the Harvard Vietnamese Association. “We wanted to get the participants to go away from the program feeling they have been enriched with new perspectives on their heritage and culture.” The summit began with a keynote speech by Rufus Phillips, a recipient of the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit and author of “Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned in Vietnam.” Phillips, although an American citizen, spent 14 years living in Vietnam, part...
...line between the impossible and the inevitable seemed to fade for the second time in a week. Many of the students had come to school Wednesday after going to the voting booths with their parents, while others had stayed out late to listen to Obama's victory speech broadcast over loudspeakers near 125th Street. That same day they wrote letters to the president-elect. "I want to change things, too", wrote Fortune Nbumbo, 7. Tatiana Jones, 9, told Obama, "You open the door not just for me, but for everybody." For the students at FLI, the definition of leadership...