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...Vanishing American There were no really big American names at Davos this year - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice didn't make the trip, and Vice President Dick Cheney, who notched up a surprisingly successful visit to Davos three years ago, stayed home...
...herself. At 52, she is no longer the ascending star she was at the start of the Bush presidency. Rice's influence with Bush is considerable, thanks to their personal bond and the departure of her rival, Donald Rumsfeld; but few believe she will ever usurp Vice President Dick Cheney's policymaking supremacy. Her associates say she is serious about retreating from public life at the end of Bush's term. For someone so devoted to regimen--up at 4:45 a.m. when she is in Washington, she works out, eats breakfast and is at her desk...
...enthusiasm, the usual biases seem to be absent. Old fogies like me are reaching for the classics and so are young guns; 300, the film about Thermopylae, is based on a graphic novel. Conservatives sup at the classic cup; Victor Davis Hanson, a scholar of ancient warfare, is Dick Cheney's favorite historian. (One of the lessons of the Peloponnesian War, Hanson writes, is that "resolute action" brings "lasting peace." Ah, yes.) And liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique of the idea...
THEODORE V. WELLS JR., lawyer for I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, who faces five felony counts of lying to federal investigators, saying that Libby was a fall guy for key White House political adviser Karl Rove...
...troops, which is just spin for escalation. We tried that in the Vietnam War, which ended only when the American people finally woke up and demanded a halt. We must do the same now with this Iraq fiasco because it is very clear that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will never bring it to an end on their...