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...Inside the White House, Rove can't match Karen Hughes' gift for channeling Bush's voice or Cheney's experience in foreign policy and Executive Branch management, but he has an equally acute sense of how issues will go over with Republican and swing voters. As a top adviser puts it, "If Bush asks Cheney and Rove, 'What's your take on China?' he's asking two very different questions." From Cheney he wants to know how foreign leaders, the military and the State Department think. From Rove he wants to know how the issue is playing with the faithful...
...Turlington has also signed on as an editor at large for Yoga Journal magazine, and has a contract with Hyperion to write a book about being a student of yoga - "kind of a 'Why Yoga'," she says - focused on all aspects of yoga, not just the hatha (physical) branch...
...more about the Supreme Court when he puts the book down than he did when he picked it up”? In the aptly titled The Supreme Court, Rehnquist succeeds in doing exactly that, throwing in anecdotes, trivia and a tour of American history while shedding light on the branch of government most shrouded in mystery...
...this book, one gets the sense that Chief Justice Rehnquist is confident in his position and proud of his branch of the government. The book ends with a resounding declaration: “There is no reason to doubt that [the Supreme Court] will continue as a vital and uniquely American institutional participant in the everlasting search of civilized society for the proper balance between liberty and authority, between the state and the individual.” And has the book succeeded in the balancing act between accessibility and technical detail? For the most part, yes. Perhaps The Supreme Court...
Within the week, the Bush administration changed its tune. It announced that it would appoint four individuals to the office, which would be led by Scott H. Evertz, the first Bush appointee who is openly gay. Evertz is president of the Wisconsin Log Cabin Republicans, a state branch of a national group which Bush at first repulsed and then met with during the campaign. The administration plans to broaden the office’s mission to include the international spread of the disease, adding a State Department official to its staff, and will also be creating a task force...