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...clarifying their points of view. Newman's brief is due on Sept. 13--a Friday. It's a victory of sorts: Mukasey could have dismissed the matter on the spot or had it moved to South Carolina, but he didn't. The hearing also had a surprise special guest: Principal Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement, a conservative and relatively young lawyer who took over arguments for the government's side. His presence was a clue as to where the Department of Justice thinks this is all heading, given that the primary function of the Solicitor General's office...
UNINVITED GUESTS Gate-crashing a wedding is not usually the best way for travelers to endear themselves to the locals, but in Coorg, you don't need to be on the guest list to attend. "Gate-crashing? No!" says Pachi Chengappa, who prepares splendid meals for tourists at her estate. "Coorgs love to entertain outsiders." Turn up at the door of the wedding hall, and you will be invited in for the drinking and dancing. The local Kodava people are a distinct ethnic group in southern India, and though descended from a warrior clan, they are anything but hostile...
Sadly, Hunt will have to leave behind what would be the best keepsake of his tenure: Harvard’s guest book, where nearly every important visitor has signed in. The signature of Al Gore ’69 sits opposite to the full-page brush stroke of Jiang’s calligraphy...
...flush out the Chechen separatists Russia says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests at a British banker's 50th birthday party at a ch?teau in the south of France were surprised when "a very special guest" came on stage to play guitar - Tony Blair, with his shirt raffishly unbuttoned. Blair, who played in a band at Oxford called Ugly Rumours, belted out vintage...
...sure to check out our other guest essays: a loving tribute to the planet from former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, who has seen Earth from a rare vantage point; a cautionary tale of lost civilizations from Jared Diamond, Pulitzer prizewinning author and a director of the World Wildlife Fund; and an impassioned call to action from Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist. (Goodall faxed her essay to us with apologies that she wouldn't be around for a while to answer editors' questions. She was heading soon into a rain forest in the Republic of the Congo...