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...bounty for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. The Vice President was hunting with not only his friend Whittington, who has advised Texas Governors and plays a monthly card game with the likes of a retired state supreme court justice, but also Pamela Pitzer Willeford, the ambassador to Switzerland. Tobin died in October, so his wife Anne Legendre Armstrong, a former ambassador to Britain and a longtime Cheney friend, played host. For all that, Armstrong Ranch is countrified rather than ostentatious. At the entrance is a utilitarian "bumper" gate, so named because you nudge it open with your vehicle. Guests usually...
...controversial that he couldn't win Senate confirmation, John Bolton, 57, became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after President Bush installed him via a recess appointment last August. Blunt and outspoken, he chatted with TIME's Elaine Shannon and Romesh Ratnesar about being part of the bureaucracy, Iran's nuclear program and who should succeed Kofi Annan...
WHAT HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST SURPRISE ABOUT THE JOB? I'm very surprised by New Yorkers who come up to me on the street and say, "Hey, Ambassador Bolton, you're doing a great job," or "Give 'em hell," or something like that. I don't know why they say it, but it's nice when it happens...
...current Iraqi minister of municipalities and public works, Nesreen Barwari—who arrived in the U.S. yesterday—will lead a study group on Iraq’s current state of affairs, security issues, and social, political, and economic challenges. And Peru’s former ambassador to the U.S. Ricardo A. Luna will conduct a group on the five Andean countries—Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela. In addition, former Boston Globe national editor Kenneth J. Cooper will host a study group entitled “Black and Brown Together Forever? Black Latino Coalition Politics...
...mile down the road to the main house. The Vice President, says San Miguel, shook his hand and promised to cooperate as they sat down to talk. Cheney, he says in the report, confirmed that he was part of a three-car hunting party consisting of himself, Harry Whittington, Ambassador Willeford, the two Armstrong women, and a three-man hunt team...