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...placed Republicans say that Rumsfeld's fate may be as much in the hands of the Vice President as in the President's. Although Rumsfeld is more responsible than any other man for the rise of Dick Cheney during the 1970s, their roles have since reversed, and now the prot??gé is protecting the mentor. Between the two of them, Cheney and Rumsfeld have run the Pentagon for almost 12 of the last 32 years. It's the federal agency each knows best, and neither man has any patience for insubordination from men and women in uniform. Cheney began...
...helps too that he has powerful backers in Washington. A prot??gé of Vice President Dick Cheney, Khalilzad speaks frequently to Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "He certainly has a freedom of action that others do not," says a U.S. diplomat involved in Middle East issues. During last summer's negotiations over a new constitution, Khalilzad took cell-phone calls from Rice in the presence of Iraqi leaders, giving her updates and assessments, according to a U.S. consultant who observed him. It showed Iraqis he had a direct line to Washington and enhanced trust that...
DIED. REUVEN FRANK, 85, wry, trailblazing TV news producer; in Englewood, N.J. In a radio-influenced era in which TV news often meant anchors reading headlines, the NBC News president made the most of the new medium, infusing such prot??gés as Tom Brokaw and Linda Ellerbee with his zeal for compelling storytelling that let pictures shine. Among the Emmy winner's best-known innovations was pairing two anchors in The Huntley-Brinkley Report whose lively pacing, witty asides and hokey sign-off ("Goodnight, David," "Goodnight, Chet") are credited with changing the style of TV news...
...another speaker, however, that dished out the real partisan red meat. A prot??©gé of Dr. King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery went so far as to bash both Bush’s foreign policy and his domestic agenda in one fell swoop, stating, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance…poverty abounds?...
Case in point: Paul Barman, a graduate of Brown University, has recently become a quirky hip-hop icon as the prot??©gé of legendary De La Soul DJ Prince Paul. And he did it in much the way that Ferguson and Legend have described—self-recording his three EPs and an LP and developing a cult fanbase...