Word: stints
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Prompted by Gergen, Summers offered leadership advice alongside his policy prognosis, saying he did not foresee his own career path, which included a stint as Treasury secretary. He hesitated, however, to offer himself as a model...
...Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez recently slumped into the seat of the American embassy's air-conditioned van at the end of his third stint as tour guide to a group of U.S. lawmakers in as many months. He was weary from the whirlwind tour but hopeful that what he showed the members of Congress had convinced them that Colombia deserves and needs an FTA with the U.S. Since September Gutierrez has ushered 24 members of Congress to Colombia. U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab led a mission of six lawmakers...
...conservatives, going after, among other things, "Huckabee's liberal immigration record," as one Thompson spokesman put it, and the fact that Huckabee raised taxes and increased spending as governor. Thompson has even raised questions about Huckabee's multiple run-ins with the Arkansas Ethics Commission during his 10-year stint as governor over issues ranging from how he paid himself with campaign cash in the early 1990s to his claim in 1998 that some $70,000 in furniture donated to the governor's mansion actually belonged to him and his wife. (Most of the 14 ethics complaints against Huckabee were...
...1990s. In 2002 the organization was banned, and Mohammed was thrown in jail for mobilizing thousands of his followers to fight American forces in Afghanistan. Fazlullah, who by then was Mohammed's son-in-law, also went to Afghanistan to fight. Radicalized by the experience, and by his short stint in an Afghan jail, he returned to continue the campaign for Shari'a using the platform of his popular radio show. "He is a very good speaker," says Zaibi Raziq. "He gets the attention of a lot of people." In a region plagued by corruption and government inefficiency, Fazlullah...
...contests coming into The Game.EXTRA! EXTRA!With a pick in the third quarter, senior cornerback Steven Williams tied the Harvard single-season interceptions record with eight, while moving into sole possession of the career mark with 16...Without a TD reception on the day, senior Corey Mazza ends his stint in crimson tied with Carl Morris ’03 for the most touchdown receptions in school history...Sophomore punter Thomas Hull posted a monster day, pinning half of his boots inside the 20...Classmate Matt Luft notched his biggest performance of the season with eight catches for 180 yards...