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...relationship that at this point doesn't exist," a senior Administration hand says of McCormack's extraordinary decree. The Syrians "typically use those sorts of events to try to say, oh, look, no problem." Damascus, he added, had used pictures of President Bashar Assad meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to suggest, at least to casual viewers throughout the Muslim world, that relations between the U.S. and Syria were normalizing...
...real magic of the TIME 100 is the pairings. We match author and subject so that the former can offer special insight on the latter. We have Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, writing about why Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker, is a historic figure. Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century, talks about why Oprah Winfrey is a hero to him. Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith writes about his respect for rival coach Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts, this year's Super Bowl winner. Martin Scorsese talks about why Leonardo DiCaprio...
...divide is deeper and more troubling. Back in January, the newly elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when unveiling a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming—named in the spirit of bipartisanship, no doubt—gave it this benediction: “The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal.” But then last Wednesday at the committee’s inaugural meeting, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican, countered: “One area where there is no scientific consensus…is the effects...
...first three months of the newDemocratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid has dominated the public consciousness as Newt Gingrich did when the Republicans came to power in 1995. There is a reason for that. A much bigger story is unfolding: the epic collapse of the Bush Administration...
...Speaker Pelosi, is this the legacy you want to leave your grandchildren...