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...Toughest Cabinet Job in Town Why Bush can't seem to find a good Treasury Secretary
...Woodward's first book on this Administration, Bush At War, was hagiography, the prose equivalent of those post-9/11 Annie Leibovitz photographs for Vanity Fair that captured the President and his War Cabinet in heroic still lifes. Woodward, the world's most famous investigative reporter and an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, took a lot of heat for going soft on the President in Bush At War, but the author's critics were wrong to suggest he was politically motivated. That book, remember, chronicled the President and his inner circle during the first three months after 9/11...
...Despite a series of press reports about Washington's growing impatience with the Nouri al-Maliki government, Khalilzad told TIME he delivered a positive review of his performance when he met with Bush. The ambassador says he gives Maliki "high marks" for his handling a diverse cabinet made up of rival political parties and for reaching out to groups outside the political process and trying to bring them to the table. He described Maliki as a "strong leader" who is doing his best to steer an unruly, inefficient government that has to do everything by near consensus. "He faces...
...Pills, supplements and hyperbaric chambers? It's all part of the modern-day medicine cabinet for wounded athletes. During an appearance on MTV Cribs three years ago, Owens was agog over the healing benefits of the chambers, which basically pump a high concentration of oxygen into patients under deep-sea pressures. The pure oxygen flows into the bloodstream, helping with wounds that might otherwise be difficult or impossible to heal, says Dr. Jeff Stone, medical director at the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit at Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas. The chambers have helped diabetics, cancer victims...
...issue that now worries the country's ruling ?lites is whether Nazarbayev, 66, has the courage to launch long-promised political reforms, delegating many of his powers to the now subdued Majlis (lower house of Parliament), Cabinet and judiciary. "Even if they were necessary to get the country to where it is now, authoritarian ways have exhausted themselves," says Asylbek Bisenbayev, formerly Nazarbayev's spokesman and top strategist...