Word: elliott
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...great deal of energy and reporting to covering China's remarkable transformation. We're fortunate that TIME's Asia edition is headquartered in Hong Kong; our reporters and editors there have long used their vantage point to assess how a changing China is changing the world. As Michael Elliott, editor of TIME International and author of this week's cover story, says, "Watching China now is like being in one of those science-fiction movies where you can see a whole new planet take shape before your eyes." It's a story that could have many different outcomes: China could...
...Democracy promotion" has been a focus of both Democratic and Republican administrations, but the Bush White House has been a particular booster since 9/11. Iran contra figure Elliott Abrams was put in charge of the effort at the National Security Council. Until recently, Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of the Vice President, oversaw such work at the State Department. In the past, the U.S. has used support for "democracy building" to topple unfriendly dictators, including Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Ukraine's Vladimir Kuchma...
...State department to discuss Iran and Syria. Along with related working groups, it prepares proposals for the higher-level Iran Syria Operations Group, or ISOG, an inter-agency body that, several officials said, has had input from Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, deputy National Security Council advisor Elliott Abrams and representatives from the Pentagon, Treasury and U.S. intelligence. The State Department's deputy spokesman, Thomas Casey, said the election-monitoring proposal had already been through several classified drafts, but that "the basic concept is very much still valid...
...Third Eye Blind and Dashboard Confessional and the New England pseudo-funk of college jam bands such as Dispatch and O.A.R., Guster claim to present a more definitive sound with their latest offering, despite the admittedly unoriginal title of “Satellite.”“Elliott Smith has a ‘Satellite,’” says Rosenworcel. “Dave Matthews has a ‘Satellite.’ Lou Reed has a ‘Satellite.’ We thought about that. We tried to change the lyric...
...long tradition of moping whiners who whispered their way to the top of the alternative charts. It’s not a bad move, ripping off the acoustic plinkings of bygone modern folk singers. But let’s not forget: Jeff Buckley drowned, Nick Drake overdosed, and Elliott Smith was found stabbed in the chest. Sure their records were lovely—raw, and eerie. They may have made heaps of money: but then they croaked. They died untimely deaths and now their songs can be heard behind the suicide sequences of movies like “The Royal...