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...There's something comforting about the meaningless hindbrain tension that The Associate generates in the reader - empty tension, the kind where there's nothing genuine at stake. Comforting too is the cozy quaintness of Grisham's little world. It's supposed to be a scary place, in theory, full of brooding criminals and impossible choices, but it's really a relic of the American past, one as sentimental and archaic as a Norman Rockwell painting. In a passage that appears, oddly, twice, as dialogue in two different characters' mouths, Grisham attempts to awe us with the high-level security surrounding...
Despite the Bush Administration's deserved reputation for punctuality, not every new midnight regulation was finalized in time, and the Obama White House acted quickly to slow what it could. In the Administration's first full day in office, White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel sent out a memo ordering a halt to all federal regulations not yet finalized until the new team could review them. For the environment, that meant Obama was able to save the gray wolf from being removed from the Endangered Species Act and block a pair of new air-quality rules, including one that...
...Capitol Hill on Thursday, Tim Geithner sent a little thrill up the leg of all the American trade unions that worked so hard to get Barack Obama elected. The Treasury Secretary-designate - whose appointment, despite his embarrassing tax travails, was waved through to the full Senate yesterday by the Finance Committee - declared in a written statement to the committee that China was guilty of "manipulating" its currency for trade advantage...
...editorial board will ratify any appointments, which are predicted to include Geordie Greig, currently at the helm of snobby glossy British magazine Tatler, as editor. Such a choice wouldn't signal an emphasis on hard news but an advisory board full of big hitters could certainly help to open doors. Names reported to be in the frame include Gorbachev and Tony Blair. His priority, Lebedev told a hastily convened press conference in Moscow, is to ensure the Standard's survival. "I don't want it to be said that some Russian idiot and former spy came along and bought...
...Appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Muskie rose to become Secretary of State in 1980, and won election to a full term in 1982. Became the Senate majority leader in 1988 with a staggering 81% of the vote. Occupied the role until...