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...Supreme Court for an investiture ceremony as chief justice. Administration officials say that in Schmidt's absence, the slack will be taken up by Jim Dyke, who was Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director during the reelection campaign and now runs a consulting firm, Jim Dyke & Associates, in Charleston, S.C. Aides tell TIME that the confirmation team for Harriet Miers, Bush's second nominee, will not include Fred Thompson, the Law and Order actor and former senator from Tennessee, who served as adviser/shepherd to Roberts. Thompson's schedule does not allow it, the aides said. Ed Gillespie, the lobbyist...
...retirement--or perhaps to avoid it. A self-proclaimed clotheshorse, Siegel had made a name for himself during his 29-year career at Levi Strauss, where he launched the hugely successful Dockers brand in 1986. Siegel left Levi's to run Stride Rite, then headed south to Charleston, S.C., to contemplate retirement. But, he says, "those thoughts lasted like two minutes." He took on a few consulting jobs. Among them was Devanlay, the global apparel licensor of Lacoste, a brand that had been so badly managed in America that it was eventually withdrawn from the U.S. market, even though...
...Myers, who was Florida's emergency director from 1993 to 2001. That was a lesson from Hurricane Andrew, when there was looting in parts of Miami-Dade County for at least a month after the storm. "Every minute counts. Every second counts," says Mayor Joseph Riley, who led Charleston, S.C., through Hurricane Hugo...
...DIED. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, 91, consummate military man who oversaw the buildup of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 1964-68 and was later vilified for it; in Charleston, South Carolina. The strapping West Point graduate led battalions in World War II and Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White...
...Length of a new bridge opened last week in Charleston, S.C., with the longest cable-stayed span in North America...