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...George W. Bush, the bucks start here. On March 17, before about 1,500 Calgary business leaders, Bush will give his first post--White House address and set the going rate for an audience with a former leader of the free world: a reported $150,000 per speech. That may seem like a lot for a man who left Washington with a record-low 22% approval rating. But it's far from exorbitant on the world's most lucrative lecture circuit--one of the perks that prompted John Updike to dismiss the presidency as "a way station en route...
...George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...
...people who are chosen to come to Harvard are very highly esteemed by their services” says Jean T. Woodward, the director of the fellows program. Former fellows include prominent figures such as Lieutenant General Karl W. Eikenberry, President Obama’s choice as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan...
...Reservations] did go down definitely in the fall,” Picca said, adding that they have “picked up a little bit since the beginning of the year.”At Henrietta’s Table in the Charles Hotel, executive chef Peter W. Davis said that business is “a little bit slower,” but the drop has not been dramatic.On the other hand, Christopher T. Principe, general manager of Cambridge 1—a casual sit-down restaurant known for their thin-crust pizzas—said...
...moderate concerns, Obama took steps to make his budget more transparent, a point his team never tires of pointing out. He included items that President George W. Bush did not to obscure the true operating cost of the government, such as the money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an annual multibillion-dollar fix of the fees that Medicare pays physicians and Alternative Minimum Tax relief for the middle class. "At least the budget that the Obama Administration presented, even though it's huge and it's a huge deficit - and that enables the other team to beat...