Word: rove
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Gergen says he expects that President Bush will assemble a team of advisers to assist him in making the appointment, including Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and two officials from the Reagan White House: former CEA chairman Michael Boskin and former Secretary of State George Shultz...
...There is some enthusiasm within the White House for an alternative-energy push, although it doesn't quite match Gaffney's best-case euphoria. Karl Rove has educated himself on issues as arcane as the vagaries of ethanol transport, and there is a drizzle of funds for research into alternative fuels in Bush's big fat energy bill. But the President and Dick Cheney, who has been in charge of energy policy, remain oilmen at heart, skeptical about a major Manhattan Project-style national campaign to redirect the energy market, mindful of the time and expense necessary to build...
Most of the 78 inmates at Rove Prison in Honiara (pop. 20,000), capital of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, were busy at their usual tasks, which include fashioning water jugs out of beer bottles for sale in local markets. To the inmates' astonishment, two senior prison officers suddenly opened the prison's steel and barbed-wire gates and, along with the 40 guards on duty, simply walked away. The two officers and other members of the staff had complained that their authority was being undermined by prisoners' complaints and a successful court action for assault brought...
...that politically influential constituency have started pestering policy makers about more aggressive pollution control. If I have to lie awake nights being worried that the runoff from some waste incinerator in Ohio is somehow going to cause my baby to be born with webbed feet, I want Karl Rove and Bill Frist to be fretting about those issues as well...
...surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono on his good friend Jeffrey Sachs; and Tom Brokaw on Jon Stewart. Even political foes can make a good pair. James Carville on Karl Rove, anyone...