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...wonders what that noted hardfella Dick Cheney thinks of all this...
...turns out you don't have to be a policy wonk to join that élite cadre of international-affairs buffs, the Council on Foreign Relations. You can just play one in the movies. The council, which counts Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger among its more than 4,000 members, has just accepted some Hollywood heavies into its ranks. In a "recognition that foreign affairs goes beyond government to the world of culture," says a spokeswoman, the think tank and publisher awarded memberships last month to applicants WARREN BEATTY, a Senator in Bulworth; Michael Douglas, the leader...
...government jobs, Bolton has never been one to quietly follow orders. Critics say he consistently used his perch as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security to undermine former Secretary of State Colin Powell in his policy battles with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. And most famously, just as delicate six-party talks, including North Korea, were about to begin discussing Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program in 2003, Bolton delivered a speech excoriating Kim Jong Il as the "tyrannical dictator" of a country in which "life is a hellish nightmare." Pyongyang responded...
...Spooky” persona will appear in Miller’s to-be-released novel Flow My Blood the DJ Said, a takeoff of the classic Philip K. Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...
...called Alan Greenspan a "political hack" last week, it was another illustration that the Fed Chairman?s near-oracle status has fallen victim to the rising partisanship in Washington. His support of Social Security private accounts was only the latest move to anger Democrats. Last month, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said, "Mr. Greenspan lost his credibility when he endorsed the President's tax cuts." Republicans, not surprisingly, don't agree, and have been almost gleeful at Greenspan's endorsement of their plan for Social Security. "Nobody in government has more credibility than Greenspan," says Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley...