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...best of all, c) their pride that Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics. Once the interviewee has expounded on a particular kind of tofu, or their son who's now studying international trade, or the prowess of China's table-tennis team, I segue to the real topic at hand. The strategy works surprisingly well...
...There is some nice language on this topic in the DPIR, but virtually no dollar signs attached to any of it,” said Whelan, garnering applause from the audience. “I am very concerned about Harvard going forward with this project with very rhetorical commitments regarding community benefits...
...nation primary, where McCain's scrappy insurgent operation in 2000 had ambushed the behemoth George W. Bush campaign, and managed to nearly derail the then-Texas Governor's drive for the Republican nomination. Just as fitting, however, was the fact that McCain chose the Iraq War as the topic of his first speech...
...standoff came a day after former White House political aide Sara Taylor testified in front of the Senate Judiciary committee on the same topic - whether the firing of federal prosecutors in 2006 was politically motivated. Taylor toed a thin line with her testimony, invoking the President's executive privilege at most points while maintaining that Bush was not involved in the situation. The White House contends that both she and Miers fall under a Justice Department opinion which concluded that senior presidential advisors can no more be compelled to abide by a Congressional subpoena than the President, regardless of whether...
...would automatically raise questions about how rigorously the company is safe-guarding classified information, adhering to export controls and meeting its other obligations under U.S. law," says a leading Washington expert in the area, who did not want his name used because of the political sensitivity of the topic...