Word: woodward
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...Woodward's first book on this Administration, Bush At War, was hagiography, the prose equivalent of those post-9/11 Annie Leibovitz photographs for Vanity Fair that captured the President and his War Cabinet in heroic still lifes. Woodward, the world's most famous investigative reporter and an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, took a lot of heat for going soft on the President in Bush At War, but the author's critics were wrong to suggest he was politically motivated. That book, remember, chronicled the President and his inner circle during the first three months after 9/11...
...book challenges the claim, made in Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack, that CIA chief George Tenet told Bush in late 2002 that the case that Saddam had WMD was a "slam-dunk." That phrase has hung like a noose around Tenet ever since and been widely derided as perhaps the most notorious, and erroneous, claim to justify the invasion of Iraq. Tenet, Suskind says, was stunned to read what he had purportedly told the President when he saw an excerpt from the book in the Washington Post in April 2004. While the President wasn't quoted...
...student tried to find out how a fridge worked, ruptured the machine’s gas pipe and had to be rescued by the fire department. 4/23: Harvard, MIT get largest electron accelerator in the world. Costing $6.5 million, the project will be completed by 1960. 5/7: Robert B. Woodward, Loeb professor of chemistry, synthesized reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders. One day later, the student council proposes a new student activity center.6/1: Dean of Freshmen bans the freshman smoker. 73 percent of freshman have poor teeth, according to James M. Duning, director of the hygiene...
...Commission. Whitman soon landed a spot on the three-member CEA and yet another historical tag as the first woman to join the Council.Convinced of the veracity of The Washington Post’s Watergate coverage, Whitman eventually left the Council.But 20 years later, Leonard Downie, who supervised Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would be the groom’s father at her daughter’s wedding.ALL BUSINESS ABOUT FAMILYAfter she became a coveted commodity with corporate boards, Whitman says she told her recruiters: “Let’s not kid ourselves, I know...
...said. “I have no clue what I’ll do without softball. I’ll miss the friends. [The game] was fun. It was a fun day.” McAteer and the Crimson’s four other senior players, Halpenny, Adams, Cara Woodward and Rachel Murray, were all honored in a pre-game ceremony. Walking off Soldiers Field in a Harvard uniform for the last time, Adams had a positive yet teary-eyed remembrance of her Crimson career. “It was all fun,” Adams said...