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...obvious successor, Vice Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kyani, is deeply loyal to Musharraf--but the Western diplomat is quick to point out that Kyani once worked with Bhutto as her military secretary and that he was involved in the early stages of negotiating her deal with his boss. Bhutto must know that she cannot return to power without the endorsement of the military, the country's most powerful and enduring institution. Pakistani Realpolitik dictates that she may have to rebound from Musharraf into a relationship with another general...
...winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge, Carnegie Mellon's Chevy Tahoe, a.k.a. "Boss," finished 20 minutes ahead of the runner-up, a Passat from Stanford. The Chevy's average speed of 14 m.p.h. (23 km/h) wasn't exactly blazing but was a big improvement over the 2004 race, in which no robots finished at all. The atmosphere was celebratory, though tempered by the uncanniness of watching driverless cars à la Stephen King's Christine, a 1958 Plymouth with a taste for blood. "It's pretty creepy when your vehicle starts beeping and it peels out," says a grad student...
...Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. In his first six weeks on the job, the Los Angeles physician--the first openly gay person to head such a group--recommended eight urgent proposals, including a White House conference, all of which Clinton quickly adopted. The outspoken Hitt, who once criticized his boss's "hypocrisy" for not supporting needle-exchange programs, had metastatic colon cancer...
Bernard Kerik, a mid-level New York City corrections official, was at home late one night in January 1995 when the telephone rang. It was his boss, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who wanted to talk. Kerik had been Giuliani's driver and bodyguard during much of the mayoral campaign, and he offered to meet the mayor the next morning. "No," said Giuliani. "Now." It was 10:30, but Kerik trooped over to Gracie Mansion and joined the mayor in a poorly lit parlor, where they shared a bottle of red wine that had been a gift from Nelson Mandela...
...been married three times and informed one of his ex-wives that their marriage was over at a press conference. Loyalty, an attractive virtue in friendship, is an alarming one in politics, when faithful cronies are promoted in public service simply because they show fealty to the boss. 'Twas ever thus, of course. But with the ghosts of Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers still rattling around loudly in Washington, Americans have learned what can happen when a President places too much faith in those who have served him - and only him - for years, and then puts them in pivotal positions...