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...bureaucratic savvy. And during the past year, on issue after issue - Pentagon reform, missile defense, Afghanistan and now the Pentagon's move to repeal the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military - Gates has become the most important player in the Obama war Cabinet. It's a remarkable feat, considering that he's the only Republican on the Democratic national-security team...
...trial centered on accusations that de Villepin used successive cabinet positions to mount a dirty tricks campaign in the mid-2000s aimed at discrediting Sarkozy - then a popular minister who shared de Villepin's ambition to succeed President Jacques Chirac. Sarkozy's lawyers argued that de Villepin sought to exploit a fake list of French notables, including Sarkozy, who allegedly held secret bank accounts containing illegal kickback money. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...virus was deemed a failure. While nobody expected spectacular results, neither did anyone expect such a stunning defeat, and the scientific community is still struggling to recover from it. "We are still a long ways away from having an effective HIV vaccine that physicians can reach into the cabinet and pull out in a vial and inject into a person," says Dr. Bruce Walker, an HIV expert at Harvard Medical School. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...measures, which are unprecedented among Western democracies, are expected to get final Cabinet approval on Feb. 4 unless opposition parties are able to block them in court. For Berlusconi, this isn't so much an attempt at new media control as it is part of an old story line. The billionaire Prime Minister just happens to own the country's only major private television network, which critics say is a conflict of interest much more troubling for the country than any of his private dalliances or verbal faux pas. (See pictures about Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...
...President's Cabinet chief and most trusted aide Anibal Fernandez (no relation) expressed his boss's dislike for Cobos more bluntly two days later: "Cobos cannot be trusted with the management of public affairs. The Vice President has become Cobos Iscariot." The President's supporters are concerned Argentina's veep might make use of the President's absence during an upcoming trip to China to call a special session of Congress and reject a recent executive decree ordering the seizure of central bank reserves to pay off part of Argentina's voluminous foreign debt. "Cobos has clearly become the leader...