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...John Spratt, chairman of the House Budget Committee, says Pelosi's kitchen cabinet, of which he is a member, is too small. "She would benefit from greater diversity of opinion," he says, adding that her small circle of confidants leaves her isolated and vulnerable to missteps when unanticipated issues arise. In the wake of the AIG bonus scandal, for example, Pelosi and other leaders moved quickly to pass sweeping legislation to drastically tax executive compensation. Such a gesture might have done incredible damage to the market had cooler heads in the Administration and the Senate not prevailed...
...What's happening today behind a front of bodily curves and female beauty is grave.' VERONICA LARIO, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, publicly criticizing her husband for filling his Cabinet with beautiful women and using them as "pieces of costume jewelry" to attract votes. She later announced plans to divorce...
...never taken a pill, never gone to the doctor, but one winter when I was 32 years old, I came down with the flu. I was miserable, shaking, drifting in and out of consciousness. In a lucid moment, I remembered someone had left Tylenol in my medicine cabinet. I pulled the bottle out, took one, and crawled back into bed. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...cipher for his party. After he was elected President last month, that argument became a little less tenable: Zuma is, after all, the new chief executive of South Africa. So what kind of President will he prove to be? The first clues came Sunday when he announced his Cabinet. Here's TIME's guide to that, and to the direction South Africa may now be headed...
...President that never was (he was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor; the job went to Mbeki instead). The corporate sector, which admires his accumulative skills, would have seen his inclusion as further reassurance. Still, Ramaphosa has been out of South Africa's political scene for a long time. A cabinet position would have been something; his absence is merely more of the same...