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...White House Conference on Global Literacy was held Monday at the New York Public Library, with booths providing simultaneous translations in Arabic, Portuguese and other languages. Guests included her mother, Jenna Welch, and mother-in-law, Barbara Bush, who had made literacy her signature issue when she was First Lady. Here's how it originated: When the United States re-entered UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 2003, the group made her Honorary Ambassador for the Decade of Literacy. The First Lady, who has a master's in library science from the University of Texas, wanted...
...talk. "It's about honesty, it's about love, and often times, in the big world, you don't see many leaders get up and talk about things like that." Mack equates Krzyzewski's leadership skills to those of legends like IBM's Lou Gerstner and GE's Jack Welch...
...ways he never did at his vocal peak. The aging musician doing his best work is a modern cliché, as is a collaboration with contemporary artists as a form of tribute. But Nashville is a great way to discover a legendary voice, and Burke's guests--Dolly Parton, Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris--know their job is to pay tribute to the songs...
...speech. "It's about honesty, it's about love, and often times, in the big world, you don't see many leaders get up and talk about things like that." Mack equates Krzyzewski's leadership skills to those of legends like IBM's Lou Gerstner and GE's Jack Welch...
...Meanwhile, Welch and NSC staffer Abrams were trying to salvage something positive out of the disaster. Using the Qana crisis as leverage, they exacted a commitment from Israeli officials to a U.S. proposal, which had been the table for some weeks, to suspend aerial bombing sorties over south Lebanon for 48 hours, give residents 24 hours safe passage to get out of the areas of intensive bombardment and allow humanitarian aid convoys to enter and distribute food, water and medical supplies. Israeli agreement to the limited suspension came late in the evening. Rice spokesman Adam Ereli, not the Israelis, made...