| A race against time
A newspaper of which Bakri is editor-in-chief plans to call for a gathering in Cairo's Journalists' Syndicate next week to protest against the visit. In Bahrain, university students also have called for protests. The visit also has been overshadowed by the campaign to succeed him. Bush is due to hand over to the winner of November's general election in January 2009. The politics of symbolism are no longer enough to improve his unusually low approval ratings. "I fully understand that there's going to be some painful political compromises," he said this week. "I fully understand that there's going to be some tough negotiations, and the role of the US is to help in those negotiations. "It's essential that people understand America cannot dictate the terms of what a state will look like.
ORU founder returns to defend school
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Read an open letter from the chairman of the ORU Board of Regents printed in the Tulsa World.
The latest on this story: Oral Roberts back at ORU
Oral Roberts came to his namesake university for the first time in three years on Monday and told students and employees in a chapel service "the devil is not going to steal ORU." He said all allegations made in a lawsuit and an attached report are false. And he said Richard Roberts, who took a leave of absence as the school's president last week, eventually will return to his position. Oral Roberts also said he has moved back to Tulsa. The crowd gave him multiple standing ovations during .
Recipes: Fresh flavours at Leiths School
Leiths School of Food and Wine is on the move. The London institution that has given a solid grounding of cookery skills to a generation of enthusiastic amateurs and would-be professionals is leaving its Kensington home and setting up in snazzy new premises in Chiswick. .
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