Area schools respond to presidents address Sep 7, 2009
Ronald Reagan spoke to school kids at the beginning of the school year in 1988; George Herbert Walker Bush did it in 1991. giving (students) a little encouragement as they start the school year and asking them to strive for excellence and to stay at what they're doing is an important message. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Golden Grammar Sep 2, 2009
George HerbertA sentence is like a tune ... For me, a great example of this principle is the first sentence of "Church Monuments" by George Herbert ... Portrait of George Herbert by Robert White courtesy the National Portrait Gallery. (Slate)
Small Business Strategies Aug 28, 2009
"Living well is the best revenge." George Herbert. And a new quotation from a new friend, Martha Kanter, the current undersecretary of Education: "When bad things have happened to you, just remember GOIMO Get Over It and Move On.". (USA Today -- Money)
Cmon guys, be our friends Aug 12, 2009
EDITORIAL A friend is the best mirror, English poet George Herbert once wrote. A mirror is a true reflection. (Braintree Forum, MA)
Same-Old, Same-Old Aug 5, 2009
Pope's "Epistle" wakes me up, enlivens me, in a way remarkably different from many poems by George Herbert or Emily Dickinson or Wallace Stevens. This poem is social. (Slate)
Susan Spencer Jul 24, 2009
Spencer covered the 1988 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, President George Herbert Walker Bush's unsuccessful 1992 re-election campaign, and former President Bill Clinton's first inauguration. She had previously been a CBS News national correspondent. (CBS News -- 48 Hours)
King Tut explorers photos, treasures revealed Jul 17, 2009
For more than 60 years, its walls concealed an important chapter of the search: a cache of Egyptian antiquities, excavated by George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and his colleague and employee, Howard Carter in the years leading up to the discovery of the treasure-filled tomb. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Moral relativity is causing a shift in society Jun 29, 2009
Nancy wrote on Jun 26, 2009 3:24 PM:" Is George W. Bush more "moral" than Saddam Hussein? Both killed a hundred thousand people or more, by their role as leaders of their country. Saddam gassed the citizens of his country, with the weapons Ronald Regan and George Herbert Walker Bush gave them, to use against the Iranians. George, the 43rd, accused Saddam Hussein of being a liar, when Saddam truthfully stated he no longer had all the weapons of mass destruction given to him by previous American... (Missoulian, MT)
Olopade, Rajan to speak at Convocation Jun 16, 2009
This year s Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching will go to Jennifer Cole, Associate Professor in Comparative Human Development; Martha Feldman, Professor in Music and the College; Edward Laumann, the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology; and Moishe Postone, Professor in History. The ceremony will take place at 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 12. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
MARSHFIELD PASTIMES: Discoveries in the tomb May 30, 2009
Mr. George Herbert Chandler was superintendent of the burying grounds at this time and he and Mr. Porter Ewell, a mason were at work on the tomb, when Mr. Ewell looked in thru (sic) a good size crack and discovered a box. This box was removed and handed over to Mr. Nathaniel Taylor, chairman of the board of selectmen. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Sotomayor Sides With the Cops May 29, 2009
The judges on the panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit were Sotomayor; Pierre Leval, a Clinton appointee; and John Walker Jr., appointed by President George Herbert Walker Bush, who is his cousin (Walker and Walker, same family). From the beginning, Sotomayor backed Tavernier. (Slate)
Let's Hope Obama Finds His Own Souter May 7, 2009
As Ronald Reagan s vice president, George Herbert Walker Bush had witnessed the vile attack on Reagan s most qualified Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, at the hands of the senior liberal from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy ... May Barack Hussein Obama be as disappointed in his nominee as George Herbert Walker Bush has been in David Souter. (Human Events Online)
Telemundo's Montenegro Gets Answers From Obama May 3, 2009
As for the 50 or so calls, e-mails and texts she's received, Montenegro - a 12-year Telemundo reporter once called on by President George Herbert Walker Bush at a press conference, but never by President George W. Bush - said "people were proud.". "And a lot of people - I don't like to talk about it, but a lot of people did state to me that they were so thrilled to actually see a Hispanic, a woman of color, actually get up there and be able to ask a question."That is what really struck people,"... (Multichannel News)
Obituaries for Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Apr 15, 2009
Dee was born Oct. 22, 1926, in Philadelphia to George Herbert and Catherine Nelson. After moving to Winona, Dee met and married Raymond Ray Jerome OLaughlin on June 21, 1947, at St. Marys Catholic Church in Winona. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Poetry and Prayer Mar 14, 2009
Metaphor and Imagination, Acts of Surrender to the Holy Muse. Poetry calls upon the power of metaphor and feeling while prayer calls upon the power of God and holy spirit. (Suite101.com)
The Best Thing To Read if You're Grieving: Hamlet Mar 13, 2009
The other piece of writing I have been drawn to is a poem by George Herbert called "The Flower." It opens. How Fresh, O Lord, how sweet and cleanAre thy returns. (Slate)
George Carter, psychiatrist enjoyed music and travel Mar 4, 2009
During his lifetime, Dr. George Herbert Carter never lost his thirst for knowledge. Both an amateur musician and a linguist, Dr. Carter taught himself to play several instruments, including the flute, and speak fluent Spanish, which he helped others learn. (Boston Globe)
A blast from the past Feb 8, 2009
Also tucked inside were newspapers from early November 1988, which recapped the recent election of George Herbert Walker Bush as president over Michael Dukakis. The second-grade class from 1988 also left some advice for the future, which Beaudoin read to the audience. (Chelmsford Independent, MA)
Journalists Vote Democratic: 1972-2004 Feb 8, 2009
But interestingly, I think that Obama has experienced the implications of America's Cold War policy in his own life in a distant land in a way that, you know, Ronald Reagan or Walter Mondale or George Herbert Walker Bush simply did not. INSKEEP: What insights do you think from his writings -- or any other sources -- what insights do you think he draws from this that are relevant to some of the problems of today: how, if at all, to try to spread democracy around the world, how to deal with... (MediaResearch.org)
