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...testing our students, we’re testing ourselves as educators and administrators and even political leaders to see where we are failing.” He had gone to Winchendon—which is about 70 miles from Boston, near the New Hampshire border—to tout his education policy, pose for the cameras and demonstrate how he harbors no hard feelings toward the school, despite the state Board of Education’s recent labeling of Winchendon schools as “underperforming.” As a test of his own performance, the governor?...
...government has never actually ruled Taiwan, it falsely claims it as a “renegade province” of the “sacred motherland,” and intends to eventually “liberate” the island at any cost. Wen and his officials consistently tout the threat of war and suppress Taiwan’s international activities. The PRC’s tactics of intimidation and intentional manufacturing of fear are not only unwarranted, but could themselves constitute formal aggression of the regime against a democratic and sovereign nation...
...Black, 59, may not be quite so nimble as he thought. As he set out on a book tour of Toronto and New York City last week to tout his new biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Black found himself at the center of a typhoon over alleged improprieties in his business affairs. On Wednesday, Black resigned as CEO of Hollinger International, his Chicago-based public company, after shareholders revolted against him, and regulators in the U.S. and Canada opened probes. Late Friday night Hollinger's Canadian parent company, which Black controls, announced that its four-member audit committee had resigned...
Iftikhar loves to tout his store’s policy on filling customer requests...
...killing 34 people. A CD found with radical Islamists in Saudi Arabia shortly before the al-Muhaya bombing and provided to TIME by French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard shows four Saudi jihadists praising bin Laden and warning infidels, "We will not let you live safely." They go on to tout an "impending act" that, they suggest, they won't survive. Intelligence sources tell Jacquard that the four participated in the May bombing. The CD also features a bone-chilling cell-phone call that two of the terrorists apparently made from a car as they launched their May attack. It lasts...