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...Washington Investigating Gonzales A special prosecutor has been appointed to probe charges that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his staff improperly fired nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006. Gonzales, a close ally of President Bush's, resigned last year over the firings, which opponents said had been politically motivated. A Justice Department report cited an uncooperative White House for the gaps in its investigation--which the special prosecutor should fill. Gonzales and others could face criminal charges...
After the butchery of World War II, Bacon was one of the artists, along with Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet and a few others, who found a way to make the painted human figure plausible again by subjecting it to extreme pressure. The soft tissue of Bacon's boiling men and women is wrenched, smeared and vaporized by their own drives and desires, and by whatever it is they do to one another. Their heads are fissured, their torsos are invertebrate; their limbs, stretched and exploded, truly deserve to be called extremities - because with Bacon the body is always in extremis...
Springing from the fertile imagination of Venetian writer Alberto Toso Fei, this game-as-guide centers on a hunt for the Ruyi of the title, a mythical magical scepter stolen from Kublai Khan by Marco Polo. In the story, the explorer takes the scepter back to Venice - where Toso Fei's first Ruyi game is set - before it is donated to the Vatican. During the sack of Rome in 1527, the Pope commissions Florentine goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini to transform the Ruyi's appearance to keep it out of enemy hands...
...Policy Douglas Feith, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and current Attorney General Michael Mukasey. They all appear to be cut from the same cloth. They may seem evasive. They may feign poor memories, inspired by the tactic’s success in the case of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They may even invoke executive privilege. Yet beneath the veneer of forgetfulness and caution, they seek to entrench the same fundamental belief in the American psyche...
...Washington Awkward Questions Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' senior aides at the Department of Justice regularly broke the law by basing hiring decisions for career posts on political considerations, according to an internal report released on July 28. The report singled out Monica Goodling, a top aide who routinely quizzed candidates about their political ideology even though it was illegal and against department policy to do so. Some of her interview questions: "Why are you a Republican?" "What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" "Aside from the President, give us an example...