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...leaving office, most have tried to stay busy, and some have felt underused by their successors. Harvard business and government professor Roger Porter, who has worked as an aide to three Commanders in Chief, explains, "Being President is like drinking from a fire hydrant. And then suddenly this entire apparatus that has been feeding you, and caring for you and making you feel important and helping you make decisions that really do matter, is gone. It's a huge adjustment. It's easy to forget that these veterans still have a lot of good ideas...
...frame, having been created by a bedmaker. Another notable piece is the 18th-century orrery—a solar system model—that was wired with the help of Benjamin Franklin after a 1764 Harvard Hall fire destroyed a large segment of the University’s scientific apparatus. Franklin’s connection to the University was through his friend, former University president John Winthrop. Other details about Harvard’s scientific progression and the field’s overall evolution can be found on the instructional cards next to each artifact. “What...
...SHOWER GIFT FOR THE WOMAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING Some fathers-to-be pick up a pint of Ben & Jerry's for their pregnant wives. That sly fox TOM CRUISE buys an obstetric apparatus. The War of the Worlds star purchased a sonogram machine, which can cost as much as $200,000, to keep an eye on the fetus growing inside his fiancé KATIE HOLMES. Exhibiting some newfound restraint--no upholstered furniture was harmed--in a Barbara Walters interview airing this week on ABC, the actor, 43, said he and Holmes, 26, plan to marry next summer or early fall, after...
...flash of steel is revealing. Pang, we later discover, is the granddaughter of the founder of North Korea's repressive state security apparatus Pang Hak Se. ?My grandfather was very faithful to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il,? she tells me. Indeed, one scholar estimates grandfather sent ten of thousands to the gulag...
...worse, far worse, was the tendency of the White House-particularly Karl Rove's message apparatus-to see the war as part of the Permanent Campaign, as a political opportunity at first and then, as the news turned bad, as merely another issue to be massaged. There is something quite obscene about the existence of the White House Iraq Group (whig). Its job had nothing to do with the military or political situation in Iraq; it was created to market the war and to smear the President's opponents. Rove and Libby were at the heart of this group. Their...