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...President's closest foreign policy aide. Jones is held in high regard inside the Pentagon for his stewardship of the corps as its commandant and for his final uniformed posting as NATO's military chief. Obama's top intelligence pick is retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair, widely regarded as whip-smart. He'll serve as Director of National Intelligence, overseeing the nation's sprawling spy bureaucracy. Obama is also keeping on Bush's Defense Secretary, Robert Gates. Even his pick for Secretary of State - former First Lady and New York Senator Hillary Clinton - has won both public and private plaudits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Wooing the Military | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...economics during his undergraduate days at Dartmouth. "I think I took one course," he says. It is easy, given his relatively young age and his background, to view Geithner as the perpetual understudy to Summers' intellectual alpha dog. But friends of both say that oversimplifies their relationship. "Tim is whip-smart and has never hesitated to disagree with Larry on substantive issues if he felt Larry was wrong," says a former Treasury colleague of theirs. Geithner, moreover, has far better political fingertips. "He's the guy who'd say to Larry, 'Look, maybe you don't want to say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Tim Geithner Lead the Economy Out of Its Mess? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...absolutely brilliant," according to Scott Anderson, a senior energy adviser for the Environmental Defense Fund. But more important, Chu - who put his research on hold in recent years to focus on climate change - understands that it will be technological leaps in the way we use energy that will truly whip warming, not U.N. summits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Talk, Little Action, at UN Climate-Change Summit | 12/13/2008 | See Source »

...have sex. On title track “Circus” she couples her search for sexual regard with her search for the spotlight. “All eyes on me, in the center of the ring,” Britney both describes and demands over the sound of whip cracks. Whether or not her self-description as a circus freak is made in jest is both unclear and beside the point. Britney will do whatever it takes to get the attention she seeks. But it is with “If U Seek Amy” that Britney reaches...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Britney Spears | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...before you whip out your credit card to sign up for the site, check the free portion to see if it covers the industries you're targeting. Here are a few other important things newly unemployed execs should keep in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Six-Figure-Job Hunt | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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