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Bush, who relies on gut instinct as much as résumé for personnel decisions, likes having the blunt, 5-ft. former Mob prosecutor at his side. A powerful sign of the respect Bush's loyalty to Townsend commands--or perhaps an indication of lingering Administration defensiveness over her appointment--is...
Six years ago, when the Federal Trade Commission accused movie studios of peddling adult entertainment to kids, I wrote something for TIME.com that, I think, applies today to the MPAA debate:
An ardent nationalist and former rector of the St. Petersburg-based Baltic Mechanical Engineering University ( who was personally placed under sanctions by the U.S. government back in 1999 for letting Iranian students in on sensitive military-related research), Savelyev is an expert on explosions who happened to be present in...
"Savelyev is a member of our commission, and we studied his view," Alexander Torshin, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council (the upper house of Russia's Parliament) and Chair of the Beslan Inquiry Commission, told the Interfax wire agency. "But we turned it down, as the facts he cites were...
Planning snafus haven't helped. One plan after another - by the Urban Land Institute, the mayor's Bring New Orleans Back commission, even New Urbanist architect Andres Duany's efforts - has fallen by the wayside in what Kroloff calls "the longest-playing comedy of errors." No one, including Nagin, has...