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...main point of my program is to regain the moral high ground America should hold,” he said. Jaccaci said he will start his campaign tour by delivering a speech at the University of Virginia on May 1. He hopes to visit South Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, and New Hampshire, as well. “I’ll continue campaigning right through till the election,” Jaccaci said. After graduating from the College in 1960, Jaccaci attended the Graduate School of Education, and studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Former Harvard Dean...
President Bush's seven-hour visit to Colombia came at an awkward moment. Revelations of ties between powerful politicians and criminal paramilitaries have brought down eight lawmakers and forced out President Alvaro Uribe's intelligence chief and foreign minister in the last four months. A new U.N. report says extra-judicial killings by the military are rising in the country. Colombia had the highest murder rate of trade unionists in the world and 4,000 disappearances last year, according to Human Rights Watch...
...Rembrandt, or a class wants to study a selection of Civil War works, she says, “the study rooms are an amazing opportunity to sit there and have this intimate experience with real works of art.”If students do not know that they can visit the study rooms to examine any one of these pieces, though, they might miss the opportunity to see a Goya, Matisse, or Warhol print up close.“I think when students are interested in the museums, the staff is very receptive,” says Philippa G. Eccles...
...little else, President Bush has learned one valuable thing about Latin America since his last visit to the region: how to duck the protests. In 2005, at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui...
...recent visit, the battalion displayed an attention to detail and an esprit de corps quite startling to someone who has spent too much time around Middle Eastern armies. "We hope for the best but prepare for the worst," said Colonel Advitya Madan, the unit's commander, as he served tea with the battalion silver, which also includes tug-of-war trophies from the 1930s. Then he went off to drill the battalion, which was waiting on the parade ground in full dress uniform, in preparation for a medal ceremony to be held several weeks away...