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...interviews by senior officials and plenty of stories about Bush's dismal approval ratings as he prepared to leave town. But the "elephant in the room," as an adviser puts it, was the still unresolved case of Libby. Many in the West Wing feared that the matter threatened to rend Bush and Cheney's relationship because of the intensity of Cheney's campaign for a full and final pardon...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL engaged to Death Cab for Cutie lead singer. Hipsters everywhere rend their skinny jeans...
...Sarkozy proposes to introduce desperately needed affirmative action programs to France (hitherto unknown in this welfare state) while the “socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy’s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues who would particularly gain from his fresh approach), seem the most susceptible to these arguments and are the most passionately aroused by the “Tout Sauf Sarkozy” movement...
...believe delaying the transition would only further enrage Iraqis, including, critically, the country's most revered Shi'ite leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, whose support the U.S. needs more than ever as it tries to rein in the upstart al-Sadr. "June 30 is a good date," says Rend al-Rahim Francke, Iraq's diplomatic representative to the U.S. "It is long overdue...
...broadcast network with commercials. If the judges decide (as they should) that "The West Wing" slipped too far this year to justify the traditional legacy Emmy, giving the award to freshman drama "24" would be one way to acknowledge innovation without giving the award to HBO, which would probably rend a hole in the fabric of space-time. (It's not a likely outcome; the academy did give the drama award to "The West Wing" in its first season, but that's because the only other plausible alternative back then was "The Sopranos" - another HBO show...