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...Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, who wanted the transition between the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to run as smoothly as possible. With some bitterness, Berger remembered how little he and his colleagues had been helped by the first Bush Administration in 1992-93. Eager to avoid a repeat of that experience, he had set up a series of 10 briefings by his team for his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley...
...Carla Gugino). They are legendary superspies, but she has a touch of the anxious soccer mom about her, and he has a bit of the doofus in him. Any kid will recognize them. The whole family works for a federal espionage agency that's smart enough to hire eager kids as spies - hey, this is a fantasy - but mostly stumbles around in a bureaucratic fog. In Spy Kids 2, sequel to his surprise hit of last year, writer-director Robert Rodriguez imagines that a Transmooker has gone missing - that is, a gizmo just a little bigger and blinkier than...
George W. Bush has a story he's been telling about the scandals plaguing corporate boardrooms. After unveiling his new policies for cracking down on deceitful CEOs to Wall Street a few weeks ago, he was approached by an audience member eager to air his own proposals--a college-professor type, as Bush tells it, with ideas both windy and unwieldy. Then a "regular guy" interrupted. "If you want more corporate responsibility," the new arrival advised, "start throwing some of them in jail...
...lean and buildable lots in desirable neighborhoods are scarce. On the demand side, an increase in immigration, the coming of age of baby-boomer children, and affordable-loan programs for low-income families are fueling the market for starter homes. Boomers are in their prime earning years and are eager to move up to larger digs or acquire a vacation home. And best of all, interest rates are low. "We've looked at the bubble question, and we've concluded that it is most unlikely," Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told the House Financial Services Committee on July...
...victims, testimony requires them to relive atrocities which they may be eager to put in their past. Milosevic has chosen to act as his own attorney, although he claims neither to recognize nor respect the Tribunal’s authority. Based on videotapes of the trial I’ve seen, he’s a shrewd and aggressive cross-examiner of those on the stand against him. His questioning of those who were hurt by his policies is especially painful for victims...