Posts Tagged “president”

Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, dies

By | January 1, 2012

File – In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo former Czech President Vaclav Havel is seen during a press conference on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the changes in Czechoslovakia and the fall of the Iron Curtain in Prague. Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in [...]

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Romney presents “Top Ten” on David Letterman show (Reuters)

By | December 31, 2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a return appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman” on Monday night to present the program’s popular “Top Ten” list. The No. 2 item on “Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Would Like to Say to the American People” — “Newt Gingrich? Really?.” The entry on [...]

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Pa. deputy attorney general cites PSU ‘inaction’ (AP)

By | December 20, 2011

HARRISBURG, Pa. ? A graduate student waited a day after allegedly seeing a child being sexually assaulted on Penn State’s campus before telling his supervisor, football coach Joe Paterno. Paterno waited another day before calling the university’s athletic director, who looped in a school vice president. “It was a Saturday morning and I didn’t want [...]

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