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...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...
...KNOWN FOR BEING BLUNT WITH COLLEAGUES. HOW IS THAT APPROACH GOING OVER AT THE U.N.? I'm known in Washington for being direct. I can be nuanced and be direct too. I don't think it's a question of style not going with the institution. Principally I deal with the missions of the other member governments. I think it's going fine, but you can ask them...
...burn these files to DVD, or e-mail them to your friends. Vongo has a way to transfer the movies to a portable device, but the devices - Generation 2 of Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform - is only just hitting the market and, to be blunt, aren't exactly iPods. Sadly, Vongo movies are not compatible with older Portable Media Centers, including those from Creative and Samsung. The folks at Starz assure me that they are working on adding more compatible devices to their list, but they also admit it's beyond their control. Until Microsoft can widely distribute...
...talk all over Capitol Hill was about how Congress should change its rules, stopping lobbyists from getting too close to lawmakers, and vice-versa. But even then, there were signs that lobbying and ethics reforms might be yet another Washington fad that would soon pass. Republican Roy Blunt, then running for the post of House Majority Leader, defended earmarks-money doled out for specific projects in congressional districts. And House Speaker Dennis Hastert, unable to blame the powerless Democrats for the growth in earmarks, found the next best scapegoat, saying the projects grew because "the Senate plays appropriation games...
...unlikely that the authors wanted to upset anyone. Murray, a clinical psychologist, is jovial and courteous in a professorial way; Fortinberry, a therapist, exudes warmth but also a fragility that betrays her long struggle with depression, won but not forgotten. Though they're blunt about the consequences of poor parenting, they don't criticize parents. "We live in a society in which damage is rampant," says Fortinberry, "in which it's impossible to bring up kids the way we're meant to bring up kids...