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...voodoo roots in the old African slave port of Cotonou, Benin, where she grew up: music is "the ultimate power," she explains over lunch in Paris, her adopted home in the 1980s and 1990s before she moved to New York City. "Listening to music, the color of a person disappears, language disappears. Even enemies listen to the same music...
...trade representative and later as a deputy secretary of state. According to Ricardo Hausmann, the director of the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School, Zoellick’s prior experience in the Bush administration could give the candidate an edge in the search. “The person that has among the Bush insiders...the most credible CV is Zoellick,” Hausmann said. Hubbard, who earned his masters and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard and is currently dean of the Columbia School of Business, has also been mentioned as a contender for the post...
...highest number of television sets per person in the world, yet by that standard of wealth, Harvard is hopelessly poor. Harvard undergraduates must subsist on what they can get over the airwaves or herd into common rooms to watch their favorite shows—or fight with others who are watching something else. But thanks to the entrepreneurial wit and creative zeal of a few students, modernity is politely knocking on our doors. Technological and legal issues have been resolved by this small group of dedicated students and satellite television could soon be accessible in upperclassmen houses through electrical wires...
...Rumsfeld neglected to inform the most important person of all: his Commander in Chief. Rumsfeld advised Bush in February of an "issue" involving mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq, says a senior White House aide. But he didn't warn anyone that CBS was about to document the abuse with shocking photos...
...Gillers, the maximum punishment would likely be a brief suspension from practicing law, something like 30 days, though he might also get reprimanded publicly. And assuming that either punishment came soon enough, what might it mean for Gonzales' future in the Administration? "I don't see how a person can serve as Attorney General under either circumstance," says Gillers...