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...Never going to happen. If you met him in the last few years of his tenure as CEO of Time Warner, you'd know the reason: he doesn't want to work that hard. Those New York business leaders who are trying to convince him to follow in the footsteps of Michael Bloomberg need to find another horse to ride." -Joe Nocera of the New York Times, July 11, 2008, on the odds of Parsons becoming mayor of New York City...
When a dozen former White House chiefs of staff met for breakfast a month after the election to give the incoming guy some advice, the old-timer among them had some special, reassuring words for Rahm Emanuel. Former Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who had been a White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, noted that Emanuel has a leg up on some of his predecessors. Unlike many chiefs of staff, Emanuel comes to the job with the experience of having been a power player on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. "You've been here before, so you know...
...treatment met the legal definition of torture.' SUSAN CRAWFORD, who oversees military trials at Guantánamo Bay, on why she halted the case of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a suspected 9/11 mastermind...
...Washington A RECESSION WINDFALL FOR RECRUITERS With layoffs sweeping the country, all branches of the military have met or surpassed their recruiting goals in recent months as Americans look for stable employment. In the fiscal year that ended in September, the military surpassed its goal by adding 184,841 new active-duty service members...
...Clinton, who can be spiky, has re-emerged as a natural diplomat. When she heard that Holbrooke and General David Petraeus had never met, she invited them over to her Washington home on a Friday night before the Inauguration. The two men spent two hours in front of a roaring fire with Clinton, getting to know each other, talking about the diplomatic and military division of labor in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clinton's was an Obamian gesture - enticing the lion to lie down with the lion - the sort of attention to detail that seems to have been replicated across...