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Students said they had mixed reactions to Pelosi’s talk...
...other exceptional thing was Sullenberger's power of concentration during the descent. He was flying largely instinctively: a highly experienced pilot completely in tune with his airplane. It wasn't just what he did, it's what he chose not to do - when he chose not to talk on the radio, [for example]. He wasn't bothering with formalities...
...commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame in May, Obama talked about the critical importance of doing the hard work of hammering out compromise on difficult questions. In the health reform debate, however, the President has outsourced that job to people who aren't as enthusiastic about compromise. When Obama finally reached out to Stupak in mid-September, after the White House was stunned to learn that the Capps amendment hadn't eliminated pro-life concerns, it was with an impatient message. "Look, try to get this thing worked out among the Democrats," Stupak said Obama told him, according...
...Those relations resumed in October when Xu Caihou, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, visited Washington. "Xu went to America and talked to Obama about arms sales," says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "But the arms sales will continue because of the Taiwan Relations Act. That shows that they can talk nicely, but can't reach an agreement...
Sure enough, the President of Iran re-emerged as optimistic as ever. "We have now entered a stage of cooperation," Ahmadinejad said in a televised interview, and observed that "there is no more talk of suspension" of Iran's nuclear program in the negotiations. According to Keyhan, the ball is now in the U.S.'s court. They quote an "informed source" as saying, "Clearly, the West needs to make an agreement with Iran and we have provided them with the means to save face." The source continued, "From this point onwards, everything depends on how far the West can correctly...