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...grudge match between Powell and Rummy is one of the few dependable leitmotivs of the second Bush presidency--though the rivalry harks back to the first Bush. Powell, the moderate, was a favorite of Bush's father; Rumsfeld and Bush the elder never got along. Powell, a retired four-star general, trusts the military implicitly; Rumsfeld above all wants to teach it a few lessons. Each man enjoys rock-star status. Each came to his current post in a roundabout way. Rumsfeld, who once served as Richard Nixon's NATO ambassador, has become at 70 the civilian warrior. Powell...
...year ago, when President George W. Bush and Rumsfeld first asked Franks for a plan to topple Saddam Hussein, Franks replied that he would need five divisions and five aircraft carriers to make it work. A dismayed Rumsfeld famously sent the plan back two or three times, asking the four-star general to shrink the forces in half, or even more. Following the Powell doctrine that all Vietnam-era generals swear by, Franks wanted an overpowering force to make sure America would prevail. Rumsfeld wanted him to do it faster and lighter, in part because he didn't want...
...Franks excelled at another mission of all rising stars: making your own luck. During the 1980s and '90s, while still a junior officer, he landed jobs under men who would go on to join the Army's most exclusive club: that of four-star generals. There are only nine in the Army, but it was Franks' good fortune to serve under an unusually large number of them, including Saint, U.S. forces Korea boss John Tilelli and former Army Chief of Staff Gordon Sullivan. "There are a lot of young colonels who never get noticed," says retired Lieut. General Richard Lawrence...
...please, GOP delegates: come to our city, stay in our overpriced shoebox hotel rooms, eat in our maddening four-star restaurants, and litter our surprisingly clean streets with your election-year literature. And when you're done with the business of the day, we strongly encourage you to partake in the goings-on in the city that never sleeps. Here are a few suggestions for after-hours activities here in Gomorrah...
...event planner for a cost-conscious corporation, and you need to set up a three-day off-site for 100 executives who are based in cities all over the U.S. and are accustomed to four-star accommodations. Where do you book the meeting without breaking the bank? According to GetThere, a Menlo Park, Calif., company that produces automated travel-reservation systems, your best bet is Jacksonville, Fla. (shown at right). Using an online program called DirectMeetings, GetThere ranked 26 U.S. cities, using factors like cost of accommodations and airfares. Jacksonville, where you could hold the described meeting...