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...sunny day in the White House Rose Garden that President George W. Bush announced his plan to enable as many as 700,000 American families to avoid foreclosure amid a growing mortgage crisis. "I've made this a top priority to help our homeowners navigate these financial challenges," he said, "so that as many families as possible can stay in their homes." That was in the summer...
...QuestBridge Scholars on full scholarship.Finally, Fitzsimmons noted that the early program deadline went against Harvard’s decision in 2006 to end its nonbinding early admission program.A representative from QuestBridge declined to be interviewed.‘I MIGHT HAVE APPLIED’One QuestBridge Scholar, Jackson W. Brebnor, currently a freshman at Pomona College in California, said that the QuestBridge program’s early deadline meant he ruled out Harvard before he knew more about it.“I felt like not being informed about Harvard as a college was an issue. If I had known...
...Obama is unlikely to sigh irritably as Al Gore did in 2000, or get tongue-tied like George W. Bush in 2004, or seem peevish as Bob Dole did in 1996, or gaze impatiently at his watch, as George H.W. Bush did in 1992. Indeed, judging from past debates, it is McCain who has more flashes of churlishness or over-aggressiveness when attempting to corner or humble his opponent...
...funny thing happens when you sit down with historians and ask them what presidential temperament is and when it matters and whether voters make a mistake to let it count for much. What emerges is that temperament is as elusive as it is essential. George W. Bush probably wasn't lying in the 2000 campaign when he promised a humble foreign policy. He just had no idea what was coming. F.D.R. probably was lying when he promised the anxious parents of 1940 that "your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." Always be sincere, Harry Truman...
...Well, actually, I think I have," says Riley, with a smile. And now we are listening, as citizens and as students. "Gerald Ford's fundamental decency. Jimmy Carter's discipline. Ronald Reagan's sunny optimism. George H.W. Bush's diplomatic instincts. Bill Clinton's intellectual curiosity. And George W. Bush's dogged determination...