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...recent revelations that a group close to the Republican Party planted news stories in Iraqi newspapers and allegedly paid off some prominent Iraqi religious leaders caused an uproar in Washington. Simon Anholt, an international consultant who advises political leaders on ways to improve their nations' brand images, thinks the answer lies in moving away from the current obsession with polls and focus groups. "Most governments provide second-rate customer service rather than leadership," he says. "Governments are popular when they have real problems and deal with them well...
...that covered everything from the Sudan to "Brokeback Mountain," ran 1 hour 40 minutes, one of the longest events of his presidency. He was in a playful mood, donning a purple tie in deference to his hosts, the Wildcats of Kansas State University, and teasing himself during a long answer: "I'm kind of wandering here." He drew appreciative laughs from the supportive but fidgety audience when he finally ended the marathon lunchtime event by saying he had to get home in time for a dinner. Facing proliferating questions about whether he had gone too far with the surveillance...
...Gittleson, who is also a Crimson editor, said she then attended a Jan. 17 question-and-answer session which TF Justice H. Kraus held for students in his and Abramov’s sections. During this session, Gittleson said, she showed the e-mail from Abramov to Kraus. Gittleson said that Kraus expressed concern that students had been given the list of readings, but read the list aloud to the students present and subsequently e-mailed the list to some of the students in the course...
...Kathy L. Evans ’08, another member of the class, said that she did not attend Kraus’s question-and-answer session but that one of her classmates forwarded her the e-mail in which Kraus listed the readings...
...Gittleson added that Abramov sent another e-mail in which she referenced the question-and-answer session and stressed that the readings she had initially listed were only some of the readings the students should review for the exam...