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...Cheney was a major factor in encouraging Robert Zoellick, a forceful conservative realist, to become Rice's Deputy Secretary-which may be a sign of new vice presidential wisdom as well. Philip Zelikow, who won praise as executive director of the 9/11 commission, will probably serve as Rice's counselor. Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat, will probably be Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
...DIED. PHILIP JOHNSON, 98; in New Canaan, Conn. One of the nation's best-known architects and architectural tastemakers, he was also one of the great American enthusiasts. As co-organizer of the pivotal 1932 International Style exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, he introduced the U.S. to the European glass-and-steel modernism that would dominate its skylines after World War II. As an architect he produced some fine work in the modernist vein, like his own Glass House. But modernism's refusal of historical reference made him restless. In 1984, with his Chippendale-topped...
...terrorism offenses). "The government has failed in its most basic obligation to protect Australian citizens," said Shadow Attorney General Nicola Roxon. But since Australia's counterterrorism laws weren't yet in force when Hicks and Habib were captured, they could not have been prosecuted at home, said Attorney General Philip Ruddock. Given the "grave nature" of the allegations against them, it was felt that "seeking to return them (to Australia) would not be a desirable outcome ... in terms of our security." The Law Council's Southwood says "the government should have insisted from the outset that Hicks and Habib...
Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann—who invited Chertoff to serve on the Belfer Center panel—said Bush made a “superb pick” and called Chertoff an “extremely smart, very analytical, clear-eyed and tough-minded” person...
...soccer god David Beckham to biblical status last week, exhibiting wax figures of him and his wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...