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...reception was muted. Rutan was widely respected in the experimental-plane-building industry, having designed Voyager, the first aircraft to make it around the world nonstop without refueling, which his brother Dick helped fly into the record books in 1986. But the design for SpaceShipOne inspired near universal derision. "When I first saw it, I thought he'd lost his mind," says Mike Melvill, Rutan's oldest employee, longtime friend and faithful test pilot...
...pushes at all, it will push the Palestinians, not Sharon--if the cadre of top advisers who have prevailed on most Arab-Israeli issues during Bush's first term has its way. Led by Vice President Dick Cheney, the advisers argue that Sharon is the man with the plan, so the best thing the U.S. can do is stay out of his way and support him if he asks for help. In Sharon's office, no one thinks a new set of Palestinian leaders will do what Arafat couldn't: dismantle the terrorist organizations. They might wear suits instead...
Hers may be the only overt influence on his work. It's hard to hear echoes of anyone else in his playing. "There are a lot of pianists in his background--Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, George Shearing," says pianist Dick Hyman, a family friend and mentor. "Perhaps Bill's greatest talent is that he's been able to put all these things together and make something personal and special out of them...
...like the Kyoto Protocol comes around, don't just dismiss European concerns with a haughty gesture. Instead, argue the American case and try to search for common ground, which Powell did not. And argue your case at the Cabinet table instead of deferring to keepers of the flame like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Failing that, try one-on-one in the Oval Office. Some are already carping that you lack the experience for running a sluggish bureaucracy like the State Department. Here at Stanford University, where you served as provost before going to Washington, they don't think...
...choice of candidate in the Democratic primary “would have been easier,” he said, “if Dick Gephardt were exciting...