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...gave his son "a little dose of realism" about the continental mood. But Bush already knew trouble awaited him, so he held a secret prep session on May 31 in the Yellow Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser Bushies. But none of them did the talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat and a Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn...
This may be a slightly skewed reading of the political style of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but it gets at something real. On the eve of Father's Day, these men are straight off a 1950s Hallmark card. These guys are guys. They're guyish. The model of their masculinity is definitely retro--stern dads in suits and ties, undemonstrative, matter-of-fact, but with alleged hearts of gold. They tend not to explain much, and they're not the best at intimate chats or hand-holding sessions. Like most dads from the 1950s, they also tend...
...Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, agreed in April to pay $100 million for Magic Earth of Houston, which makes images like the one at left. Such 3-D computer maps are assembled from seismic data and, along with soaring energy prices, are helping drive the global oil-and-gas-exploration business. Magic Earth's "data-mining" software provides geologists with color-coded guides to rock formations and fluid densities. Its visual clues, says CEO Michael Zeitlin, can be analyzed more quickly and accurately than reams of numbers and graphs. And its improved accuracy means drilling fewer dry holes, reducing...
...October I walked to Belmont Center while reading Moby Dick; passing the town’s high school on a jaunt two years later, I realized with a start that the sight of it conjured up a passage from Melville I had long since forgotten. I cannot walk to Porter Square on certain fall afternoons without feeling the golden antique light of Fitzgerald’s Princeton, because one sophomore-year Saturday I read This Side of Paradise on the median strip of Mass...
...Dick Thompson: It means the administration may have to look for a new fig leaf. Conservative economists - rather than scientists - have been saying for a long time that there's a lot of uncertainty about the science of global warming. But what this report is saying is that despite uncertainties on a variety of questions, there's enough certainties to draw certain basic conclusions, one of them being that the planet's temperatures are rising as a result of human activity...