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...Minister Nouri al-Maliki for about 25 minutes, and stepped into the Rose Garden. Senior aides, including Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Counselor Michael Gerson and Communications Director Nicolle Devenish, had been waiting with the press, and Vice President Cheney followed Bush out of the Oval Office and stood far offstage...
...height of the previous year’s crisis, Houghton had issued two statements in support of Summers. Now, however, the president stood alone...
...there that I first saw leadership as a reciprocal act, a two-way street, when my editors let us reporters lead the way on stories even though we were two years their junior. And when I became president, I felt as if I was leading most effectively when I stood with others instead of apart from them, when I stood behind and below others—by using my pedestal to support them, instead of separating myself. This lesson is not one that can be learned in the classroom, even in a “psychology of leadership?...
...these more minor policy shifts mask what will amount to the first decrease in overall federal education spending in a decade. To be sure, the Bush administration is not alone in these misdeeds; Democrats and Republicans alike have stood by as the education of U.S. youth has become a singularly lagging priority in federal planning. Ma and Pa America seem all too willing these days to forget its children, all too willing to forget the importance of education, which has always been the the great equalizer of our society, allowing people from different backgrounds to better themselves and to improve...
...unlikely draw that matched her up against two Russians who currently ranked among the best junior fencers in the world. Cross barely escaped the second of the two bouts with a 15-14 win. Surprised to make it to the gold-medal bout, one familiar opponent stood between Cross and a repeat title. In the 2005 finals, Cross narrowly defeated Arianna Errigo of Italy in a nail-biting 15-14 win. This time, she dismantled the Italian, 15-5, to everyone’s shock. “I was really floored,” Brand says...