... Grant and his wife Julia in December of 1874. Couldn't keep his food down In January of 1992, Former president George H.W. Bush reportedly threw up at a state dinner in Japan , into the lap of Kiichi Miyazawa , then-Prime Minister of...

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...1 comment 6 months ago: From left, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Wards, President Barack Obama , Steelers Chairman President Dan Rooney , Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin , and members of the Steelers , pose with the Vince Lombardi...

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...walks in the palace garden -- could still get Karzai to bend. "You have to show him respect and consideration," said Zalmay Khalilzad , a Bush administration envoy to Afghanistan who remains close to Karzai. "You cannot lecture him. You...

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...called the White House "the great white jail." John F. Kennedy conceded that the job was a lot tougher than he had expected. Thomas Jefferson described the presidency as "a place of splendid misery." Last spring , as he moved to end the...

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...criticism due to their religious beliefs. In the election of 1800, John Adams , with his Calvinistic roots, attacked challenger Thomas Jefferson and his alleged atheism. "It was a serious fight," Feldman said in his forum address.

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...about the details. " Fayyad is the only game in town, but his plan isn't sustainable without a political process," says Martin Indyk , who heads the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution and organized a three-day conference in...

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...shelter (2005-2006); assistant attorney general, state of Florida (2004-2005); Army JAG Corps (2000-2004) Alma Mater: Washington and Jefferson College , B.A., 1993; University of Florida , M.A., 1996; University of Miami , J.D., 1999 Path to...

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... Joseph Korbel , the father of Madeleine Albright , who was the secretary of state before Rice. In 1989, Rice served in President George H.W. Bush's administration as Soviet and East European Affairs adviser, and as President George W. Bush 's...

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...to negotiations about the details. " Fayyad is the only game in town, but his plan isn't sustainable without a political process," says Martin Indyk , the head of the Saban Centre at the Brookings Institution who organised a three-day...

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...ties and respect between our nation." Washington » President Barack Obama called U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. back to the podium after Huntsman 's introduction and whispered into his ear. "Jon," the president said, apparently seeking...

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...a town-hall event for Chinese youth in Shanghai on Monday. Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link. Jon Huntsman Jr. had scarcely landed in Beijing as the new U.S. ambassador before he was imperiously summoned...

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... Shanghai , Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Related Washington » As President Barack Obama kicks off his state visit to China , U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. says the chief executive has "won the respect and confidence" of China 's leaders and that...

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...editorials are those things printed on the left hand side of the editorial page, beneath the picture of Jefferson 's statue, beneath a Jefferson quote about reason and truth and error, and beneath a list of The Cavalier Daily's leaders. The...

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...met only a single time - and what a series it s been. And hasn t been. It s been colorful, filled with famous names ( Paul Brown , Art and Dan Rooney , Noll and Shula), ever-changing names ( Chad Ochocinco ne Johnson ), long names ( Ben...

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U.S. ex-spy Plame and publisher lose memoir appeal Reuters - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson (R) hold a news conference at the National … 42 mins ago NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - A former CIA agent whose...

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...was interviewed by FBI agents attempting to discover the source of the leak that outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. She is the wife of Joseph Wilson , a former ambassador who was assigned in 2002 by the CIA to investigate foreign...

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...similar action against three more prominent Kenyans. But he declined to name the official. Ending the speculation, U.S. ambassador Michael Ranneberger directed readers of his Twitter page to The Standard newspaper, saying: "Still...

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...her remarks, saying they would contribute to a healthier, more open relationship with Pakistan. But the American ambassador, Anne W. Patterson , sought to put them in a broader context of efforts to persuade the government to root out...

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