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...does a lot of belted looks. I think she does a lot of statement jewelry ... one or two pieces, well-chosen, bold, big. I think the empire waistline is probably one of her favorite silhouettes. I think those are the biggest. There are other things that she has done consistently. She wears a lot of pearls, double-stranded pearls. She certainly did for her official White House portrait...
...daunting challenge for Panetta now, say the retired officials, is to get the Democrats to quit poking around the agency's past and focus on its future. "There's been too much discussion about what the CIA did in 2002-03, and not enough about what needs to be done in 2010-11," says a former official...
...colleagues, Justice Scalia has sharply criticized Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito for effectively overruling the court's precedents without acknowledging that they were doing so." Pausing between each carefully chosen word, Sotomayor responded that, while there are times when precedent should be reexamined, those should be done "very, very cautiously." (Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...
That charge cannot be entirely dismissed as a conspiracy theory, for allegations of a U.S. covert program to destabilize Iran are hardly confined to paranoid mullahs. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council officials in the Bush Administration, wrote in May that "the Obama Administration has done nothing to cancel or repudiate an ostensibly covert but well-publicized program, begun in President George W. Bush's second term, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize the Islamic Republic...
...more remarkable aspects of Chinese government efforts to fend off the global economic downturn has been a surge in lending. To keep struggling enterprises afloat, Beijing urged Chinese banks to open the credit floodgates - and bankers have done so. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, estimates that $224 billion in new loans were made in June alone, bringing the total for the first half of the year to $1.08 trillion - 50% more than the amount of loans Chinese banks issued in all of 2008. (Read "China's Banks Become the Government's Foot Soldiers...