With 68,000 troops remaining in Afghanistan, even after next year, Mr. Biden dismisses the argument that the United States is rushing for the exits, officials familiar with his thinking said.
At Stevenson High School, the student tried to bypass the school's metal detectors by sneaking through an exit, education officials said.
After all, one of the oldest jokes here -- and among its greatest pickup lines -- remains the question, "What exit?" But officials are also hoping it makes business sense.
Those worries were heightened by the crisis in Egypt, where the Saudis felt that Mr. Mubarak should have been allowed to stay on and make a more "dignified" exit, Saudi officials say.
The men, who were identified in court papers as Shahawar Matin Siraj, 22, of Queens, and James Elshafay, 19, of Staten Island, 19, twice conducted surveillance of the station, including once last week, drawing diagrams of the entrances and exits, the officials said.
The flight of Mr Hijab from what he now calls Syria's "terrorist, murderous regime" is the worst such setback for Mr Assad so far, and may augur a speedier exit of officials, particularly Sunni ones, thus exposing the sectarian core of the regime dominated by the minority Alawite sect.
Last week, as passions in Athens mounted, Germany's finance ministry was forced to deny accusations that Wolfgang Schäuble had advocated a Greek euro exit after officials, in a series of Financial Times reports, were cited as saying he had been the staunchest supporter of Greece quitting the single currency.
His People's Front party exceeded expectations, notching up roughly 21% to the Poroshenko Bloc's 23%, according to exit polls (official results are still being tallied).
Consider your exits your official "The Bachelor" audition tapes.
Thus, it is likely to be a while yet before the traditional dichotomous prototypes will make an exit from official classifications, even though evidence and thinking are moving on.
