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Cheney is the most powerful deputy ever, and he is also very much Bush's subordinate; this is not a contradiction so much as a cause and effect. Bush trusts Cheney because he is loyal, discreet and very clear about who is in charge; that trust in turn is Cheney's trophy, up on the mantel for all to see. They have more than that weekly private lunch that Al Gore insisted on when Bill Clinton recruited him. They are together every day, sometimes for most of the day; Cheney attends any important meeting and then often stays behind with...
...rights to show reruns of various Trek episodes, even though they have already been aired dozens of times. With their built-in audience, the nine previous Trek films grossed an average of $181 million in inflation-adjusted terms and collectively made $1.2 billion - nearly 30% of it from loyal crew members overseas, particularly in the U.K. and Germany. And Nemesis is better - darker, more surprising - than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman.) How does Trek survive...
...some highly visible faces—the mysterious mug that is Gossip Guy, the ebullient blonde-haired beauty Rachel E. Dry, the deceptively innocent grin of gay-court-file-pilfering Amit R. Paley. But each week, while beers are slammed in the newsroom, a loyal cadre of FM drones works quietly in the basement, oiling the well-run machine that is our fab rag. FM stopped being drunk for five minutes to salute these FM heroes. God knows, FM would be lost—both metaphorically and literally—without them...
DIED. GEORGE CHRISTIAN, 75, last press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson; of lung cancer; in Austin, Texas. Johnson called Christian--a loyal, easygoing fellow Texan--"unflappable George," while others labeled him a yes-man. Still, he won admiration for his evenhanded treatment of reporters, whether friend...
...last official i.r.a. assassination before the Good Friday peace treaty. All but two of the paintings Cahill stole were recovered. The next man to loot Russborough House is believed by senior police sources to have been Martin Foley - known as the Viper, and one of Cahill's most loyal lieutenants. In a June 2001 raid, his gang took two paintings: Bellotto's View of Florence and Gainsborough's Madame Baccelli. It was the third time these paintings had been lifted. The gardaí believe the Viper, who is still at large, masterminded the theft for insurance purposes - to trade...