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Pilati arrived at YSL from Prada seven years ago as an assistant to Tom Ford, the Gucci Group's design czar. In 2004, when Ford departed, Pilati took over at the house of Saint Laurent. Early on, fashion editors left his runway shows disappointed, but more recently they have warmed to his designs and declared him a bona fide talent...
Every day President Bush gets briefings on Iraq from his advisors. He gets intelligence reports first thing in the morning from his Director of National Intelligence. He gets updates from his National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and his Iraq czar Gen. Douglas Lute. He even gets a nightly three- to four-page memo on Iraq from his staff at the National Security Council...
Like a lot of people who support marijuana use, psychiatrist Tod Mikuriya had detractors. (His work was called "the Cheech and Chong show" by Bill Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey.) The longtime Republican believed in the therapeutic effects of the drug on more than 200 ailments and in 1996 saw a bill he crafted, Proposition 215, pass in California, legalizing the use of pot for the seriously ill. The "grandfather" of the medicinal-marijuana movement said his fight to "restore cannabis" stemmed from a backlash against its medical use following the late-'30s film Reefer Madness...
...second or third song, nearly everyone started dancing. The normally straight-laced Goldenberg boogied onstage with Fun Czar John T. Drake ’06, who dubbed the event, “Feel-good music for a feel-good...
...Iraqi government and has lauded Democratic efforts to impose a timetable for troop withdrawal. Although Gates has won plaudits from Congress for his candor, he and President George W. Bush clearly need help crafting Iraq policy. That's why the White House is hunting for a "war czar." So far, half a dozen former military officers have declined the offer. Most retired officers under 62 can be ordered back to active duty. But that's one "stop loss" order Bush is unlikely to issue...