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...Nevada Democrat said that while he welcomed talk of a compromise, he was considering expanding the filibuster threat to include Bush's pick to be U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton, whose confirmation hearings begin this week. "We might filibuster him," Reid told TIME. And he added another name to the list of those who might be talked to death: Stephen Johnson, whose nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn fire from California Senator Barbara Boxer over a pesticide-testing program involving children...
...that he is "open" to new ideas, a U.S. intelligence source tells TIME that Mueller has signaled his opposition to recent recommendations by a White House intelligence commission to bring more FBI intel functions under the DNI's purview. At least Negroponte, who is leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to Iraq for the DNI nomination, is used to being under fire. --By Timothy J. Burger and Brian Bennett
...between Japan and its neighbors never stay submerged for long. The bonhomie has evaporated in recent weeks after Japan renewed a campaign for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council alongside China. Although Japan's bid received an endorsement from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, South Korea's ambassador to the U.N. told reporters that the world's second-largest economy was not entitled to a permanent seat because it "lacks the confidence of neighboring countries." In China, opposition to Japan's U.N. bid started out as an Internet petition drive that gathered 25 million signatures and culminated...
...names are here: Glenfiddich, Chivas and Glen Moray. And there's an opportunity to taste some old malts with George Grant, brand ambassador of Glenfarclas distillery, which has been run by his family for six generations. "There are many whisky festivals around the world, but this is one of the few where you can meet face-to-face the very people that are at the heart of the industry," says Grant. "In an age of globalization, opportunities to meet with and share the passion of the family distiller are becoming rarer...
...addition to plotting future books, Chen says he enjoys gardening and traveling. He also hopes to spend part of his retirement with his 88-year-old mother in Taiwan and his twin brother, who he says is currently an ambassador to the Czech Republic for Taiwan...