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...press release in which Kirby announced the restructuring framed the move in the context of the upcoming curricular review, set to come fully underway next year...
...lust. Innocent trips to Annenberg soon metamorphosed into more. Much more. Gahan recalls, “When I began the year, [I gave advice like] ‘People are social beings. Don’t go it alone.’ But I meant that in a different context.” His students ended up taking him at his word...
...Whatever challenges confront the new press secretary - who is likely to be Fleischer's deputy, Scott McClellan - they will all be framed in the context of the approaching 2004 election. Always nervous that the president's official duties will seem politically motivated, the White House wants to conceal any outward appearance of striving for victory while working robustly behind the scenes to do just that. No one will have to maintain this balance more than the new resident behind the podium. In 2000, Bush's team tried to keep the press at bay, much as it does in the White...
...Survivor. But CBS tapped deeper passions when it announced its flagship mini-series for the May sweeps: a biography of the young Adolf Hitler from adolescence through his rise to power. Jewish leaders charged that the mini-series might make Hitler sympathetic, by showing him out of the context of the Holocaust, or blame his evil on an unhappy youth. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd suggested that the network was using the project to court young viewers. Says CBS president Leslie Moonves: "You would have thought we were going to have a handsome young guy dancing...
Kinsley's description of the "great man" theory of history and Bush as a real leader included the observation that "great in this context does not necessarily mean good or wise." Kinsley also noted that "if real leadership means leading people where they don't want to go," then Bush is a real leader. But by this definition, Saddam Hussein is also a great man. CHRISTINE GELINEAU Windsor...