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...mutual admiration when the U.S. Senate welcomes back one of its former members for a hearing. But when former Vice President (and Senator) Al Gore showed up today to testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the event was a full-blown lovefest. New Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry expressed his deep respect for Gore's post-Senate career and noted in an aside, "It's well-known that we have a certain political experience in common." (Hint: it doesn't involve winning.) Christopher Dodd hailed Gore as having been for years a "lonely voice in the wilderness...
...come by. Worries over Britain's fast-shrinking economy, plunging interest rates, a wobbly banking sector and creaking government finances have driven traders to dump the pound. "I would urge you to sell any sterling you might have," Jim Rogers, once a business partner of George Soros and now chairman of a Singapore investment company, told Bloomberg on Jan. 20 just before the pound hit a 23-year low. "I hate to say it, but I would not put any money in the U.K." (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...kitty, while Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, and other Senators wanted to ante up another $50 million. This year, the House approved an SEC budget of $928 million, while the Senate approved $938 million, a 2% to 3% increase, which is greater than the 1% hike former chairman Christopher Cox requested from the 2008 budget of $906 million. The final budget, part of the government's "Continuing Resolutions," has yet to be approved...
...Then again, most publications are on an advertising diet. And Condé Nast's official position on Anna's employment is unambiguous. "This is something both [chairman] Si Newhouse and Anna Wintour have blankly denied," says spokesman Patrick O'Connell. But still the stories persist. Replacement names are bandied about: Carine Roitfeld from French Vogue is a favorite, with Amy Astley from Teen Vogue as a dark filly. The most recent reports are that all the rumors are merely the result of jostling during new contract negotiations between Wintour and Newhouse. (Read a 1988 TIME article about Wintour...
Burns Night procedure is highly structured. After the guests arrive and take their seats at the table, the chairman (what? don't your dinner parties have a chairman?) asks them to stand and receive the haggis. Everyone rises as the entrée of entrails - haggis is made by stuffing a sheep's heart, liver and lungs along with oatmeal and spices into the stomach lining, so that it looks like an oddly distended football - arrives on a platter, usually with a bagpipe band following behind. Someone then gives a boisterous rendition of one of Burns' poems, "Address to a Haggis...