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...exciting, and controversial, images to magazines such as “Rolling Stone,” “Vogue,” and “Vanity Fair.” During her talk, she discussed everything from the June cover of Vanity Fair, where precocious Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus posed with her back exposed, to a recent encounter with actor Daniel Radcliffe of the Harry Potter franchise and Broadway’s Equus. Radcliffe, unlike Cyrus, was prepared to bare a little more skin...
...double-zero” deal in which both the U.S. and the Soviet Union would eliminate their entire nuclear stockpiles—and with them the specter of nuclear war at large. But Reagan’s refusal to surrender his “Star Wars” missile defense shield scuttled the agreement. More recently, the Bush administration’s decision to place missile interceptors in Poland led a Russian general to threaten a nuclear strike on that country and the general provocation of that country’s political leadership. These diplomatic losses surely outweigh any potential...
...Martin campaign insists it is not concerned by the Obama absence. However, its concern for black voter turnout is apparent. Martin was scheduled to appear in Atlanta Monday with the hip-hop star Ludacris, the goal being to get African-American voters back to the polls. Chambliss, for his part, was scheduled to appear with Palin in four events on Monday, focusing on encouraging voters in Republican strongholds to come to the polls one last time. The Chambliss line about being the firewall against an Obama agenda is resonating with voters. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Georgia...
...most surprising thing about President-elect Obama's pick of James Jones Jr. to serve as his national security adviser isn't that he's a retired four-star Marine general. It's that Jones is a longtime friend of Senator John McCain, the man Obama defeated to win the White House. While many prior Democratic national security advisers - think Anthony Lake under Clinton - have been academics or policy wonks, Obama's choice of Jones highlights his centrist tendency and his willingness to confound his party. It will be Jones' job to serve as a foreign-policy broker...
...overwhelming sentiment among residents is one of having been let down. "Mumbai has been a bad scene for so many years," says Sheetal Javeri, an administration professional, emerging from CST, the railway terminal struck by terrorists on Wednesday night. "But the government has taken no steps. If five-star hotels can be targeted so easily, where is the common man to go?" She has little option but to use the commuter rail line despite the attacks. "But that doesn't mean I don't fear for my safety or my family's safety," she says. "They still don't know...