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...Apart from Cheney (Defense Secretary 10 years ago) and Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff back then), Bush can call on Rice, an NSC staff member in his father's Administration, and Paul Wolfowitz, now Deputy Secretary of Defense and then Cheney's policy aide. Army General Hugh Shelton, who holds the job that Powell had 10 years ago, retires next week, but Shelton will be succeeded as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs by his deputy, Air Force General Richard Myers. Pentagon officials are relieved. "If the new Chairman was a field commander," says one, "it would...
...that's why it was only later on, when I was traveling more around the world, that I became more aware of all the diversity in South Africa. I grew up listening to, because of my parents, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, knowing about Miriam Makeba. But only when I got out of high school did I start to get into the more contemporary people, people like Tananas, which was an integrated band, and Juluka, which was an integrated band. And then, from them, I became aware of the Soweto String Quartet...
...closing, in response to a question about his role in the recent movie Bridget Jones’s Diary, where he played an arrogant author named after himself, Rushdie joked that his brief appearances surpassed that of stars Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant...
...felt I held the film together, although I thought Renee and Hugh were good too,” he quipped...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...