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...female, has exquisite taste and a rigorous and logical sense of order. Her first rule is clarity; second, no clutter; third, despite rules one and two, the order established must not be bloodless or inhumane; fourth, you must make do with Harvard-issue standard materials (lamp, i-book, other desk furnishings) so that the challenge is to make rules 1-3 operate even under the circumstances of rule...
...conventional military strength than the U.S. would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons to redress the balance. Cheney had been charged with developing a policy on homeland security in response to asymmetric threats, which meant that Iraq's continued possession of WMDs was a problem that landed on his desk. In morning intelligence briefings, says a former Administration official, the Vice President began to raise questions about Saddam's regime. Cheney and others, says the official, would say things like, "Tell me about Iraq, tell me about Iraq, tell me about Iraq. What's the status of their WMDs? What...
Ernesto Bertarelli's father groomed him from an early age to take over the family pharmaceutical business. "As a child, I remember him sitting me down at his desk and telling me, 'One day you'll have to sit in my chair. You'll have to take the decisions.' That makes a big impression on a child," recalls Ernesto, 37. The family firm, Serono, has a long and odd history: it was founded in Rome in 1906, and its best-selling product was long a fertility drug derived from the urine of postmenopausal women, including Italian nuns. Bertarelli's grandfather...
...Back in Bangkok, we crack open some beers, and the afternoon takes another turn for the weird. "I've got 600 ballpoint pens in a box under that desk," Swaffield says abruptly. "I still don't know what to do with them." Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box. He cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously...
Visiting Europe, Bush tries to calm worries among allies. “I have no war plans on my desk,” he says...