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...provost and the dean have accepted and started to implement all of these interim recommendations, all four,” Barreira said. “Any one activity has to be understood in the whole context...
...relationships with his family that she had established during his father's presidency. Rice used the confidence that Bush had in her to consolidate her position in Washington. The big personalities of the Administration's foreign policy team had not yet shown their muscle. Though it was well understood that Cheney would be a key figure in the new Administration, Bush did not know him as well as he knew Rice. There was speculation at the end of 2000 that Cheney would chair the Principals Committee meetings--a key policymaking forum on foreign and security policy. Rice was given...
...while her Olympic medals were consigned to a box in her wardrobe. Racked by bouts of restlessness and depression, she came to believe that swimming was part of who she was and denying it was dimming her spirit. She received, she says, no sympathy from her husband - "He never understood my motivations, my essence." After their marriage ended in 1997, it wasn't long before the pool lured her back. And by clocking a personal-best 30.32 sec. for the 50-m 'fly at last year's U.S. Masters championships in New Jersey, she qualified for the Olympic trials...
...that I knew him well,? says former NYCB dancer Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona. ?But his ballets are part of me, his musicality, his timing, his sense of structure. My god, this man did everything.? Those who worked with him, says Edward Villella, ?understood we were in a moment of history. Picasso and Stravinsky changed their art forms in the last century. Balanchine did that for ours...
...talked to her about it and asked…we just wanted to be sure that she was serious,” Brotemarkle said. “She affirmed that she was and proved herself throughout the fall. Most people understood she had had a rough two years and that she really wanted to be on the team...