This is one of several inaugural weekend dispatches in which I follow L.A.'s cultural institutions, big and small, to see how they are responding — or not — to the advent of the Trump administration.
Even my wife, who would gladly see Paul Ryan dispatched on an inaugural human mission to Mars, asked why Biden was smiling all the time and why his teeth were so white.
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She recalls dispatching her troops to the Clinton inaugural in 1993; to Argentina, for polo season; to yachts in Acapulco and Monte Carlo.
UNICEF supplies dispatched to Yangon from new ASEAN-UN Joint Logistics Hub BANGKOK, 24 May 2008 – The inaugural flight from the new ASEAN-UN Joint Logistics Don Muang staging area in Bangkok, left for Yangon today carrying with it a shipment of critically needed UNICEF supplies for children of Cyclone Nargis.
Having been thrashed 6-1 by Dennis Priestley in the inaugural PDC final the previous year, Taylor's third world crown came after he dispatched Rod Harrington, in the now Sky pundit's only final appearance.
In short, Kerry could make good on President Obama's inaugural address comment to start and "roll back the specter of a warming planet". As UN Dispatch Editor Mark Leon Goldberg noted last week, Hillary Clinton used her "rock star diplomat" status as secretary of state to empower women globally.
While new presidents routinely take more time to submit their inaugural budgets, Mr. Trump unveiled his unusually late, and in an uncommonly low-key fashion, dispatching his budget director to unveil the plan while he was overseas.
When Mr. Obama signed papers formally nominating Mr. Hagel, Mr. Kerry and Mr. Brennan after his Inaugural Address on Monday, he said, "I'm sending a few nominations up, which I know will be handled with great dispatch".
