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When he arrived at Newsweek, Whitaker did not have a desk or an office...
...massive central rotunda so reminds Brahimi of the spaceship in his favorite movie, Star Wars, that when he enters, he mutters, "Aaah, this is the mother ship.'' His working space is cramped, just 10 ft. by 12 ft., with a small, imitation-leather couch and two chairs facing his desk. As the special envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Brahimi, 70, has been holed up in this office...
...knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 to a recently deceased incumbent: "Voters preferred the dead guy." He shows footage of Bush clowning at his desk in March 2003, moments before giving the televised address that announced the invasion of Iraq. He shows a newsclip of Bush on a golf course saying sternly, "We must stop the terror," then reverting to country-club form by adding cheerfully, "Now watch this drive." There's a shot from...
...telescope will be a great opportunity for Harvard to stay in the ranks of astronomy,” said Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner. “That’s another thing that ends up on the director’s desk. He has to make the case to the University and others that this is something that really has to be supported...
...huge, jasmine-scented, marble-floored lobby of the Venetian resort in Las Vegas is almost always abuzz with activity. As in most Vegas hotels, guests traipse to their suites through a bustling casino. To the right of the long check-in desk, though, a quieter enclave awaits. There, in a hallway accented with deep cherrywood and mirrored walls, three elevators whisk guests to a more intimate check-in area on the 10th floor of the resort's newest addition: the $275 million, 12-story Venezia hotel tower, opened last June and billed as "an oasis of tranquility." As incongruous...