Word: shortlists
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...garage rock was hailed as the year’s musical revelation by every two-bit rag on the record store shelves. Entertainment Weekly selected the movement as one of its “Entertainers of the Year,” on a shortlist that also included Nia Vardalos and Kelly Clarkson. The magazine cheerfully proclaimed, “Rock was clawing its way up from underground to infiltrate the mainstream in a way not seen since grunge’s glory days...
...Turner Prize nominations have become the British art scene's annual rite of ridicule. Last week's announcement that the shortlist included ceramist Grayson Perry, whose works depict scenes from the life of his alter ego, a woman named Claire, gave the tabloids more than their usual grist for outrage at the state of contemporary art. pornographic potter gunning for ?20,000, screeched the Daily Mail. But the tabs' time might be better spent exploring the cozy relationship between the Turner Prize judges and the nominees. Andrew Wilson, who short-listed Perry, was paid to pen a catalog essay...
Though there's no shortlist yet, names under review by the White House counsel's office include U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller of San Francisco, who assisted Ashcroft until Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was sworn in last week; George Terwilliger, No. 2 at Justice in the first Bush Administration and a lawyer for W. during the Florida recount; Stephen Trott, a federal appellate judge and former Reagan Administration Justice Department official; and Ronald Noble, who currently leads Interpol. Choosing Noble, an African American, would help silence criticism that the bureau remains a conservative-white-male bastion...
...committee was pleased with the shortlist it drew up of University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger, Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Summers--and especially pleased with Summers, their unanimous choice for president...
...slightly safer topic: treasury secretary. Bob Rubin and Larry Summers, both Greenspan buddies, are tough acts to follow, and one hopes Bush ran his Treasury shortlist (currently headed by ALCOA chief Paul O'Neill) by the Fed chairman, because the relationship between the Bush administration and the Fed will be Topic A for Wall Street's Beltway-watchers. The bad news: The new treasury secretary's first job will be selling that very same...