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Gates has gone out of his way to woo Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, so much so that they've come to seem inseparable. "Gates needs her," says Bruce Riedel, who led Obama's strategic review of Afghanistan early last year. "No one would take Gates' view on what the Democratic Party would support in Afghanistan seriously. He's not a Democrat...
...there, you take a 45-minute flight from Anchorage (or undergo a spectacular 600-km drive), which will carry you to the little fishing port of Valdez. It may seem ironic that the scene of one of the world's worst environmental disasters - the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, which released 40 million liters of crude oil into Prince William Sound - is also your gateway to great powder and exciting ski terrain. But Valdez has been a mecca for big-mountain skiing since the early 1990s, when Emily Coombs and her late husband Doug, two of America's most...
Forty-five kilometers up the road over the Thompson Pass, in a muddy car park by the Tsaina River, is a small collection of cabins and the center of the operation. From there skiers and boarders take off in AStar helicopters and flit over the magnificent empty wilderness of the Chugach Range. Being this far north and so close to the sea, the Chugach receives an extraordinary amount of snow with a stability unmatched elsewhere. It is possible to ski or board pitches of as much as 60 degrees - truly astonishing when you consider the steepest runs in most resorts...
...Runs take place through featherlight powder under cobalt skies and are at least 1,000 m long - often double that. Views stretch out for hundreds of kilometers in every direction. In the early days, many of the bowls, chutes and peaks had never been touched or even seen by humans, let alone felt the impact of skis or boards. And there is still no sign of global warming except perhaps to the eyes of the most knowledgeable guides and locals, who say that even in this frozen wonderland there has been some loss...
Tymoshenko, meanwhile, has built her campaign around promises of a sharp crackdown on embezzling bureaucrats and the oligarchs who have used their political influence to circumvent the law and take control of much of the economy. She blames Yushchenko's "weakness" for the rampant lawlessness. "He didn't stand the test of power," she told TIME in an interview in December. Tymoshenko says she will display no such timidity. At a campaign stop in southern Ukraine in January, she told supporters, "Sometimes I'm envious of China, where they have just what's needed for punishing corruption - they...