Word: spokenness
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...White House had been preparing for the launch for days. Within 90 minutes, a statement condemning the actions was released. A few hours later, Gibbs was briefing reporters, saying that Obama had already spoken with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already been dispatched to arrange an afternoon Security Council meeting to condemn the action...
...complications will not end on Monday, when Obama travels to Turkey, where he will have to dance delicately around an issue he has spoken out about at home, the Armenian genocide, a tragedy that continues to be officially denied by the Turkish government and which Obama has promised to acknowledge as president...
...soft-spoken member of President Barack Obama’s team graduated from the University of Rochester in 1970 before receiving a Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley. Chu would later go on to head the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and serve as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley...
...with pictures of budding Kurdish stars. Language courses in the unofficial regional capital Diyarbakir are packed, writers' groups have sprouted and at the local theater, young actors are staging the city's first ever original Kurdish-language play (The Mutes). "Diyarbakir used to be a place where Kurdish was spoken, but never written," says municipal cultural coordinator Cevahir Sadak Duzgan. "That's changing...
...important people too, a group of about 200 proud teenagers from a mind-boggling variety of backgrounds. The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School has about 1,000 students, all of them girls ages 11 to 17, two-thirds of whom speak English as a second language. Fifty-five languages are spoken at the school. Ninety percent of the students are ethnic minorities, and no single ethnic group makes up more than 21% of the student body. As a group, they treated Obama as if she were an American Queen, a personification of what they can only dream of becoming...