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...with others? "Most reality shows are cast for conflict," says Green. "If you cast our show that way, it would break." All the "stars" are partnered with professional dancers, who teach them how to dance--and how to win viewers' and judges' hearts and votes. Each pair gets pretty close. (DeLay is being mentored by Cheryl Burke, whose usual strategy is to make the audience "uncomfortable watching it because we are going to be so sexy.") After Katz got off a very giggly call with DeLay, his wife and his daughter, she called Green with her assessment: "He's adorable...
Nevertheless, people - even some quite close to DeLay - are surprised. "Got a nonspecific hint that he would be doing something high-profile," says Richard Cullen, one of his legal advisers, when asked if he knew of DeLay's plans. "But I would never have guessed this." Republican strategist and former DeLay spokesman John Feehery was also shocked - but more that his ex-boss had been asked than that he accepted. "He likes to be in the middle of the action," Feehery says. "Politicians have this internal thing where they like to be the center of attention." DeLay doesn't deny...
...more to buy Siemens' joint-venture stake. One plan calls for the state to sell 15% of Areva to new investors. Areva also plans to sell off its shares of a number of smaller French companies as well as T&D, an energy-transmission affiliate that it bought for close to $1 billion in 2004, which is now valued at nearly $5 billion and accounts for 20% of the company's profits...
...security pact with the U.S. Such fears are probably unfounded; everyone in Japanese politics knows the alliance with the U.S. is the bedrock on which Japanese security rests. But as China grows in strength politically and economically, it is inevitable that any Japanese government will want to have close relations with Beijing as well as Washington. That is the new reality in Asia--and the world...
...office and the Supreme Court. Though Friday’s panel sought to describe the merits and possibilities of government service, the audience—a packed crowd that trailed out the door and consisted mostly of students—hoped for an inside look at an administration with close personal and ideological ties with the North Yard. But Kagan revealed that she has no daily working relationship with President Obama and instead interacts on a more regular basis with the Attorney General. Still, Kagan’s ascension to one of the nation’s most prestigious legal...