Word: visitations
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...leadership. Governments in the Arab world have welcomed the new tone adopted by Obama in his early outreach efforts. "They are discussing issues, showing their concerns, but they also listen," Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit said of Obama's team during a recent visit to Washington. "I think they are very much different from the Bush Administration." Last month, Jordan's King Abdullah II enthused on Meet the Press, "In the Middle East, this President provides hope ... There's a collective hope that there is a new America." (See Cairo getting ready for Obama...
...Images of close fraternity between the rulers of the United States and the desert kingdom were evident throughout Riyadh. Along highways and on landmarks, the stars and stripes flapped alongside the green Saudi flag to honor Obama's visit. A graphic logo on Saudi television's coverage of the event depicted Obama and Abdullah in the corner of the screen, their faces nearly touching. (See pictures of Obama in Saudi Arabia...
...ended up as the first person from his high school to attend Harvard. After a plane ride—his first one ever, according to Falcone—to visit the school...
...Over the course of my five-month stay, I was able to attend operas in Paris, join the fencing team, take horseback riding lessons, visit Germany and Spain, and spend hours wandering around the woods near the campus engaged in heady philosophical conversations in French. Since returning, I have found that my life here is much richer for the experience and that thanks to having studied abroad, I have been able to take much better advantage of the opportunities offered at Harvard...
...Geithner repeats constantly, both in public and in private, that the Obama Administration is committed to returning to fiscal responsibility - pushing deficits down to 3% of GDP - in the "medium term." On his first visit to Beijing, the Treasury Secretary could claim to his Chinese hosts that the necessary precondition for that return to fiscal sanity - a little bit of economic growth - might be on the horizon. Considering where things were the last time he met China's Premier - in October of last year, when the global economy was, as Geithner says now, "falling off a cliff" - that...