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...firing last year of eight U.S. Attorneys. Gonzales had previously suggested that all of them had been dismissed for poor performance, but McNulty allowed that at least one of them, Bud Cummins of the Eastern District of Arkansas, had been removed to make room for Tim Griffin, a Karl Rove protégé who had headed the opposition-research operation at the Republican National Committee. Gonzales was upset, his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson has told congressional investigators, that McNulty's revelation put "in the public sphere" the uncomfortable fact that the White House helped engineer the dismissal...
...conservative member of the European parliament said yesterday that Europe and the United States must work together in order to fend off the effects of global climate change. Karl-Heinz Florenz, a German member of the European Parliament and former chair of its Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety, said that the United States should become more involved internationally by devoting more funds to environmental causes, as well as implementing better policies. “I think there’s a lot of reasons to spend money in America, to save money, and not send...
...message he told two top Gonzales aides that the Attorney General was "extremely upset" that his deputy, Paul McNulty, had told the Senate Judiciary committee the day before that one of the attorneys, Bud Cummins of Arkansas, had been fired to make room for an aide to Karl Rove...
...Congressional testimony earlier this year. He and Monica Goodling, the former counselor to Gonzales whom Congress has granted immunity to testify, had multiple e-mail conversations with White House officials throughout the fall of 2006 about the plan to remove the U.S. attorneys, including with Scott Jennings in Karl Rove's office and Harriet Miers and her assistants in the White House counsel's office, documents released by the Justice Department show...
...biggest opportunity is in its pioneering use of celebrity designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney. For the "M" line from Madonna, the singer worked with H&M designer Margareta van den Bosch, but it's clear whose name Chinese shoppers are looking for. "I'd buy almost anything Madonna designed," said Anne Yeung, 22, an architect trainee, as she waited in line in Hong Kong last month, "and so will all my friends...