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...fill Negroponte's job, President Bush today named former Navy Adm. Mike McConnell, now a senior executive at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, whose previous billets included heading the National Security Agency. McConnell had declined to step in as Negroponte's deputy when Michael Hayden left that job eight months ago to become the new CIA Director. McConnell is an affable, respected national security hand originally from South Carolina. It remains to be seen whether he'll fare better than Negroponte. It also remains to be seen whether McConnell's work for Booz Allen Hamilton, where...
...rights and same-sex civil unions. And outgoing Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney espoused liberal views on gay rights and abortion when he was running for office in Massachusetts, though he has disavowed them as he has moved into national politics. Many conservatives had high hopes for Virginia's George Allen and Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum--until they lost their Senate re-election races last year. And Evangelicals say they adore all-but-announced contender Sam Brownback, a former Evangelical who converted to Catholicism and is one of the Senate's most ardent opponents of embryonic-stem-cell research...
...intelligence job, and eager to return to his career as a diplomat. A likely replacement for Negroponte is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992 to 1996 and is currently a senior vice president at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton...
...tenor to splendid use in this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
MACACA n. A racial slur? A kind of monkey? Virginia Senator George Allen, who used it at a campaign rally when he spotted an Indian-American volunteer from his opponent's camp, might define it as "the end of my re-election campaign...