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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Friedman remarked, "The two most impactful [sic] secretaries of state in the last 50 years were James Baker and Henry Kissinger. Both were empowered by their presidents, and both could candidly talk back to their presidents." Surely Friedman is joking about Henry Kissinger - "talk back"? That, of course, is the Kissinger Friedman knows from Kissinger's endless spin performances for...
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Monotonous Forest (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
This Thursday, I'll be talking onstage at Miller Theatre with composer Jason Eckardt and poet Laura Mullen , who have collaborated on Eckardt's Undersong , a cycle of four works ending with the world premiere of the distance (this), completed in 2008. Vocalist Tony Arnold and Ensemble 21 will be joined by David Fedele (flute) and Christopher Finckel (cello), all conducted by James Baker....
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The Florida Masochist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
... 80-81Alexander Haig- Army General 81-82George Shultz- Academic, former Sec. of Labor and former AG 82-89James Baker- Lawyer and former Sec. of Treasury 89-92Lawrence Eagleburger- Career Diplomat 92-93Warren Christopher- Lawyer, former Dep. AG and Dep SOS 93-97Madeline Albright- Academic, former Nat. Security staffer 97-01Colin Powell- Former Army Chief of Staff and National Security...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
With the end of 8th grade in view for James Baker, three of Chicago's top public high schools turned him away--rejections that caught the straight-A student and his family off-guard. His test scores fell just shy of cut-offs at Lane Tech and Walter Payton, two elite college prep high schools. He lost out in the lottery for Von Steuben, a popular magnet school on the North Side. Baker,...