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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart, Jack Straw, were the picture of transatlantic harmony as Rice visited Straw's constituency in Blackburn, England, last week. Their good cheer reflected the continuing official closeness of their two countries--the tightest of coalition partners three years into the war in Iraq despite the opposition of much of the rest of the world and the fact that, as Rice conceded last week, "we've made tactical errors, thousands of them," in Iraq. (She later said she meant it "figuratively.") But not everyone in the British government is smiling. A dispute...
...last week that lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to prison for fraud, the Senate passed a new ethics bill. The House will take up the issue next. Here's a look at reforms Congress seems willing to accept...
...about the road not taken because it is too difficult. We fear failure, and society dictates our behavior. In Brokeback Mountain, we see two worlds: the open, exuberant, vivid natural setting, suggesting what life could be like; and the cramped, suffocating, dark domestic world inhabited by Ennis and Jack, what their lives are really like. And we wonder: What if? Have we really done what we wanted to do? Are we really where we want to be? Brokeback Mountain raises all those questions. It's a real eye opener. Thank you, Ang Lee. Roselaine Pennino Paris...
...member of Phi Beta Kappa, Weinberger went on to earn a JD from Harvard Law School in 1941. In the six-and-a-half decades after he left Cambridge, Weinberger’s Harvard ties continued to run deep, top alumni development officials said.Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Executive Director Jack P. Reardon Jr. ’60 enthusiastically lauded the commitment that Weinberger, a former HAA director, showed to Harvard.“Caspar Weinberger ‘bled’ crimson!” Reardon wrote in an e-mail, adding that he was “endlessly interested...
...Lampson has made a major issue of the lobbying scandal, and his campaign home page has a petition headed, "Tell Tom DeLay to Return the Dirty Money!," referring to contributions from he and his political action committees have received from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a one-time DeLay ally who pleaded guilty in January to three felonies, including conspiring to defraud clients and bribe public officials...