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...respect that the vast land has its own interests and ways. Lilley knows. He was born in Qingdao, the son of an American oil executive, and China has been the center of his life. China Hands, which is co-authored by Lilley's journalist son, Jeffrey, is a survey of postimperial Chinese history, a compendium of American blunders in troublesome nations, and it has some pretty good locker-room tales about spies, including how, using his covert-messaging skills, Lilley helped a colleague bag another man's fianc?...
...years passed, Stanley (working on his own) noticed that he was getting a lot of letters from wealthy women who said the first Millionaire book didn't really apply to them. That made sense: 92% of the people who filled out the original survey were men. Thus a new project was born--a three-year study of wealthy women, published last week in Stanley's new book, Millionaire Women Next Door...
...questioned the paucity of hard intelligence on Iraq's unconventional weapons capability, Tenet had told his boss that the WMD case against Iraq was "a slam dunk." But failure to find any such weapons in Iraq after the war led David Kay, the CIA official who led the Iraq Survey Group assigned to find Saddam's banned weapons, to tell Congress that "We were almost all wrong." A bipartisan commission appointed by President Bush into WMD intelligence is due to report early next year...
...most popular leader in Iraq, according to the ICRSS survey, was the country's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Also high up: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a leader of the Shiite Dawa party named as one of two vice-presidents in the new administration, and Adnan Pachachi, the Sunni elder statesman and preferred presidential candidate of the U.S. who was offered the post but turned it down in the face of objections from some the Iraqi Governing Council...
...What's more, the results of the ICRSS May survey suggest that the new president and prime minister had both been slipping in Iraqis' estimation - in a similar poll conducted last September, Allawi had ranked Number 10 out of 25, and al-Yawer Number...