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...When George W. Bush shook up his White House staff a few weeks ago, the smart money in town took a decidedly blase attitude about it. Wake me, said a longtime Republican player, when they dump [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [Treasury Secretary John] Snow. Until then, he added, it's not a policy change of much significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Toughest Cabinet Job in Town | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

...That take still looks smart. But if, as many expect, Snow is the first to go, and soon, it's worth spending a few moments to consider why this White House has such a hard time finding the kind of Treasury secretaries it, and the country, really needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Toughest Cabinet Job in Town | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

...best cardiologists at our hospital, a heart specialist who was also a "real doctor," and he diagnosed and treated everything he could. An Ivy-league graduate with a fascination for the Sopranos world, he had his eccentricities. But Don was a pillar of our medical community, smart, hard-working and always attuned to the subtleties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Fancy Machines Can ? And Can't ? Do | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...this year. Musically, Taking the Long Way is full of swaggering country-tinged rock hooks--like a peak Eagles record, except without the misogyny and drug references and the advice to Take It Easy. Instead the songs aspire to do what the best pop always does, function as a smart expression of its creators' lives while remaining accessible to its listeners'. There are allusions to the recent past--on the jubilant opener The Long Way Around ("It's been two long years now/ Since the top of the world came crashing down") and the breakup song Everybody Knows ("I swore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicks In the Line of Fire | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, has boasted the state had triumphed over organized crime. The Sao Paulo crisis is likely to shine the spotlight on both their records."You can't say the PCC want to benefit one candidate or another, but there 's no doubt that they are smart and well-informed and that they know authorities are more vulnerable in an election year," said Bruno Paes Manso, an expert on the PCC and author of the book The X Man: A Look into the Soul of the Sao Paulo Assassin. "President Lula will be criticized for not investing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Brazil's Killing Spree | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

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