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Aides were still searching last week, according to one, for "someone with credibility with the markets" to replace Treasury Secretary John Snow, who has come to be viewed as an ineffective messenger. They are also on the hunt to replace Jim Towey, director of the President's faith-based initiative, who left saying the effort had "faced a steady headwind from Day One." At one point, say G.O.P. officials, the White House was even inquiring about a possible ambassadorship for White House counsel Harriet Miers, but Bolten issued an unusual public denunciation of reports that she would be replaced. Bolten...
...being ushered into life after college by world leaders, journalists, or other public figures, both Harvard students and those at peer institutions have expressed disappointment with their schools’ choices of commencement and class day speakers. One Harvard senior said he was unhappy with the choice of Jim Lehrer as this year’s Commencement Day speaker. “[Jim Lehrer] is an insightful journalist...I only wish we had someone more inspirational,” said Todd Van Stolk-Riley ’06 of this year’s speaker selection. Van Stolk-Riley added...
...Jim Towey, the President's director of faith-based initiatives, isn't a typical Bush appointee. First of all, he's a Democrat. Second, his career trajectory never took him anywhere near the state of Texas. He worked on Capitol Hill for former Sen. Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican, and for Lawton Chiles, the former Democratic governor of Florida. He also had the distinction of being the late Mother Teresa's lawyer, and serving in her Calcutta mission. On Monday, seated under a picture of President Bush at prayer, Towey told a handful of reporters that he was leaving...
...most of the first five and a half years in office, titles notwithstanding, Bush didn't have a chief of staff. Andy Card was many things: family friend, trusted aide, personal assistant. But he was never a chief of staff in the Jim Baker/Ken Duberstein/Leon Panetta mold. Those men played a different hand: they stood at the cross section of policy and politics, managed the process beneath them and teed up the crucial decisions for their boss. Outside of national security matters, they did not share the job with anyone...
...couple was getting involved with a cult. But Heather says they were reassured after reading pamphlets on the organization's practices. "People form these negative opinions because they don't have the right information," she says. Now married for 15 years and living in Long Beach, Calif., with Jim and their two daughters, Heather, 39, says she appreciates the structure that Opus Dei gives her life. She sees setting aside at least an hour a day for prayer as a blessing, not a burden. "I have much more calm because I know God has a hand in whatever happens...