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...bold and risky move. At a time when the nation has extensive commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House is pushing the idea of giving the military a more important domestic role. Bush might have chosen a more modest approach like talking up FEMA reforms. But he's gone a much more adventuresome route, one that could well involve revisiting century-old statutes restricting the use of troops at home. To be sure, McClellan indicated that the president is thinking of a lead role for the Department of Defense in disaster relief only when the chaos...
...Ballmer, says a source close to the talks. Negotiations are now at an impasse over key technology issues, such as whose instant-messaging platform would be used. But a variety of proposals remain on the table, including the creation of a separately traded company. "We could take a more modest approach with co-marketing agreements," the source tells TIME, "but the bias is, if we're going to do this, let's really play...
...Kill; and the sublime sci-fi masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still. In those films, as in his other Oscar winner, West Side Story, in which his camera was a fully choreographed partner with Jerome Robbins' dancers, his impeccable and unpretentious craftsmanship became the true assertion of a modest, subtle and humane temperament. He became a revered Hollywood elder and president of the Directors Guild and the Motion Picture Academy, which he managed as he did his sets-with a quiet intelligence that in an ego-driven industry was the more welcome for its invisibility...
...modest protests last week in Britain over rising fuel costs did not bring the country to a halt, as similar protests had in 2000. Even so, by staging their protests at oil refining plants, the handful of angry truckers who spoke out did manage to throw a spotlight on a major, if little-understood, factor behind the current international fuel crisis. In the past, when gas prices spiked, notably in the late 1970s, the problem was caused by high crude oil prices. This month, as global gas prices took a steady upward march in the wake of Hurricane Katrina...
...Kill; and the sublime sci-fi masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still. In those films, as in his other Oscar winner, West Side Story, in which his camera was a fully choreographed partner with Jerome Robbins' dancers, his impeccable and unpretentious craftsmanship became the true assertion of a modest, subtle and humane temperament. He became a revered Hollywood elder and president of the Directors Guild and the Motion Picture Academy, which he managed as he did his sets--with a quiet intelligence that in an ego-driven industry was the more welcome for its invisibility. --By Richard Schickel