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...Security Adviser, decided that U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer's plan for getting a government going in Iraq wasn't viable. Without telling Bremer or his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rice went to President George W. Bush after her summer vacation to put the viceroy on a shorter leash. She knew that the President exercised with Bremer when he visited Washington, appreciated his strong Catholic faith and treated him like a Cabinet member. But she drew on her even deeper bond with the President. She soft-pedaled her views of Bremer's record so as not to make...
...about their mission. Sauntering up to Handsome Dan, the duo attempted to convince his handler that the mascot was needed for one final anti-Harvard halftime performance. Without a word of dissent, the bulldog’s master handed over the hula-hoop that was serving as a leash, apparently never suspecting anything was amiss...
...agents or asking another hot woman out on a date--sometimes for the second or third time, even if he didn't remember asking before. As a performer he's more frenetic, having made a career of playing supercharged supporting characters as if he were Al Pacino on a leash. His talent is being big and real simultaneously. Piven's brilliant, nuanced take on agent Ari Gold in HBO's Entourage (which returns to Sundays at 10 p.m. E.T. on June 11) is a cartoon of male rage--and Piven says he's holding back. "I could actually...
...Roth's credit that he cannot quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as Everyman's concept seems to demand. His style repeatedly breaks its leash, as at the funeral, when the protagonist's brother gives a moving eulogy and his estranged son struggles violently against unbidden grief. But then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence...
...approach to training and a big reason that the author of seven books, including Good Owners, Great Dogs, and star of the just released puppy-training DVD My Smart Puppy, has emerged as one of the premier dog trainers in the country. Whether an animal is pulling on the leash, jumping on the neighbors or quietly relieving itself on the living-room sofa, Kilcommons has a remedy. He has trained more than 35,000 dogs, ranging from abandoned shelter pups to the poshest celebrity pooches, including Harrison Ford's Labrador retriever, Diane Sawyer's Cavalier King Charles spaniel and Candice...