Robert W Peery

Scaling buildings is a task that's usually reserved for superheroes, giant lizards and depressives but French madman/urban climber Alain Robert has carved a career out of his daredevil tactics, despite falling into none of those categories.

Set your countdown clocks to 2011, when Robert Gates, Defense Secretary to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, plans to step down. "It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012," he tells Foreign Policy, in an exclusive interview.

Mr. Roberts writes a fine effort for the Telegraph, offering a bit of reality for the Partisan denial: "The conspiracy theories believed by many (generally, but not always) stupid people ? that it was "all about oil", or the securing of contracts for the US-based Halliburton corporation, etc ? will slip into the obscurity..."

If, as most pundits now believe, Mitt Romney has the inside track for the Republican nomination, he is the first GOP candidate in more than a generation not to be syntactically challenged. Just look at the list of the party’s choices since Richard Nixon, whether elected (Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush) or defeated (Gerald Ford, Robert Dole, John McCain). Whatever other attributes these candidates possessed, facility in extemporaneous exchange was not one of them. None of these men could be counted on to handle a challenging question, let alone always keep noun and verb somewhere near their rightful places.

Remembering the man who gave us "Feed the Birds" and "It's a Small World."

The office of Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), 92, announced Sunday the longest serving senator in history was "seriously ill" and had been admitted to an unnamed Washington-area hospital.

USS George H W Bush (via Wikipedia) As the violent crackdown against Syrian dissidents continues, the US government is warning all American citizens in the country to leave immediately, according to CBS. Turkish citizens are also being warned to stay out of the country. The US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, [...]

Perry was currently employed as a financial consultant with Robert Half Technologies of Princeton. Mr. Laustsen served on active duty in the United States Navy aboard the USS Arthur W. Radford from 1982 to 1985. A resident of East Windsor since 1987 ...

2012 Vera Kathleen Perry of Portland died, Friday, April 6, 2012 at Firwood Gardens surrounded by her family. Vera was born June 4, 1917 to the late Vern and Elsie Fry in Flint, Mich. Vera married Robert W. Perry and had two children, Kathleen and Robert.

Perry assumed the office of Governor late in 2000 when George W. Bush resigned as governor of Texas to prepare ... Perry has said that under President Bush's defense secretary Robert Gates, the Pentagon vastly underestimated China's defense modernization.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I recently received a card from Robert Shetterly. The front of the card was his portrait of Helen Keller, a serene and composed portraiture. On the back of the card was a biological sketch of her. The sketch revealed a person of ...

Robert Modranski, an amendment to a previously granted variance ... The appeals board meets at 7:30 p.m. on May 7 at township hall, 3111 Hilton St. N.W. The township’s Board of Zoning Appeals will consider three variance requests next week: • William ...

"[W]e are especially happy this year that Dr. Hewett will be able to give us some insight into what we might expect from the economic development impact of The Jackson Laboratory," said Robert Perry, president of the Farmington ...

Katy Perry doesn’t appear to be hung up on soon-to-be ex-husband Russell Brand. The singer enjoyed the Coachella Music Festival and spent some intimate time with Robert Ackroyd ... out with “K” and “W” gold and diamond earrings ...

State Education Commissioner Robert Scott announced Tuesday that he will resign ... 1994 - with a brief period as the governor's education advisor after Perry succeeded George W. Bush more than a decade ago. "I am at a transition point in my life, where ...