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...Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Latin America-and more than half of those (seven) have been in the two years since the President was re-elected. McBride, who in September was elevated to the top rank of White House aides as an Assistant to the President, said the first topic Mrs. Bush brought up with her when she was interviewing to be her chief of staff was her desire to go to Afghanistan, which she did last year and this year after having been prevented from going earlier, primarily for security reasons...
...network a sitcom about cable news. Kevin Reilly, president of NBC Entertainment, felt Fey was using the news setting as a fig leaf for her own experience and encouraged her to write what she knew. Sorkin, meanwhile, was shopping his return to TV with a show about TV--a topic that earned him high praise, if not high ratings, with ABC's Sports Night. SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels, a co--executive producer of 30 Rock, says Fey's sitcom was in the works when Sorkin asked to tour the SNL set for research. "I honestly believe he came...
...Donna DeBerry, teamwork is integral to sports--a topic she'll have to know a lot about as Nike's newest exec--but equally important is cultivating self-worth. "On a playing field, in an office environment, it must also be about developing unique personal character," DeBerry, 51, says. It's a trait she had instilled in her early on as her father's Air Force career took her family to many postings--a global upbringing that DeBerry sees as her key qualification for becoming Nike's first vice president for diversity. A former Wyndham International executive, she will also...
...This agreement, reaching across centuries of time and several religious schisms, has been especially evident in the last month, when American Evangelical Christians and the current Roman Catholic Pope (aided by a 14th Century Byzantine emperor and head of the Greek Orthodox Church) spoke up on a single topic: the forced conversions of Christians by Muslims...
...Science’s “Brilliant 10” list in its October issue for his research on the idea that our universe may be only one of many “multiverses” and that additional dimensions may exist. Arkani-Hamed’s favorite topic of discussion is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, a 27-kilometer-long machine that will begin operation in 2007, combining two beams of particles at incredibly high speeds and energy and will help test his contributions to the multiverse hypothesis. “This experiment is much more important...