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...expertise in navigating crises; in Washington. The courtly intellectual's feats of diplomacy included persuading the deposed Shah of Iran to leave the U.S. for Panama during the Iranian hostage crisis; helping manage the media during Clinton's Whitewater flap; and urging onetime client Mick Jagger to wear a tie to Washington's tony Metropolitan Club. A lifelong Democrat, he recently served on President Bush's commission to investigate pre-9/11 intelligence failures...
...Does anyone still wear a veil...
...figures huddled beside the graveyard on the road that leads into the Pakistani town of Mardan seemed an unremarkable group, their identities obscured behind the head-to-toe burqas that local women traditionally wear. But these were no ordinary women--in fact, they weren't women at all. Instead, the burqas concealed a group of Pakistani commandos who were waiting last week for a killer. U.S. and Pakistani intelligence had received a tip that a suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract...
Since then, I have only become more aware of my good fortune. Yesterday, I was looking through some pictures from the past four years. A couple of observations: I wear a lot of navy blue shirts. I take far too many pictures of someone else and me by extending my arm out and pointing the camera toward the two of us (which, incidentally, always turn out terribly). But there is really only one important theme: my friends...
...wanted to stay away from doing anything that you would not be able to wear off stage,” Petrich said...