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...Smith's boss, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, had entered Downing Street only two days before, as Tony Blair left office after 10 years, and Brown, Finance Minister for all that time, assumed the job he had long cherished and for which he had long been marked. One theory, not ruled out by government security sources, is that the terrorists timed their plot to mark that transition. Brown and Smith were surely busy; soon after the first car bomb was discovered, a second was found in London and the next day, shaky footage of a Jeep in flames plowing into...
...knew something significant was up when, a couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail notifying me that a long-ago boss had added me as a "friend" on Facebook. This was a genuine grownup with an important and time-consuming job (that is, not a magazine writer). And here he was, asking me to be his social-networking buddy...
...what are the newly arrived grownups doing now on Facebook? My previously dormant account suddenly began filling up in May with "friends"--journalists, Silicon Valley networkaholics, a guy in Australia who sometimes comments on my blog, plus a few important people like my ex-boss. Facebook's News Feed updates me on whom these people have befriended, where they're vacationing, whether they went on a bike ride today, and the like. It's frivolous stuff, but you can see the potential of an online world arranged to emphasize the doings and opinions of those who matter to you most...
...Libby's was a case close to his heart, to say nothing of the heart of Libby's former boss Dick Cheney, who was known to feel that the conviction of his former chief of staff was an injustice in itself. So Bush decided on a measured approach to mercy: commute Libby's 30-month prison sentence without reversing his conviction or lifting the $250,000 fine...
...Smith's boss, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, had entered Downing Street only two days before, as Tony Blair left office after 10 years, and Brown, Finance Minister for all that time, assumed the job he had long cherished and for which he had long been marked. One theory, not ruled out by government security sources, is that the terrorists timed their plot to mark that transition. Brown and Smith were surely busy; soon after the first car bomb was discovered, a second was found in London and the next day, shaky footage of a Jeep in flames plowing into...