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...long-time friend of Corporation Member Robert E. Rubin ’60. He met Rubin about 30 years ago, when both had entry-level jobs in the investment world—Rubin at Goldman Sachs, Rothenberg at Capital Research and Management. “I have known Bob Rubin since back in the day, when he was beginning at Goldman Sachs and over the years, my company has done a lot of business with them,” Rothenberg said. He added that he lost touch with Rubin when Rubin joined the Clinton Administration as treasury secretary...
Clarke's dual personality makes no sense--unless you work in Washington. Aides passionately defend their boss one day, and after they resign, recall a very different story. Bob Kerrey, a 9/11 panel member and former Democratic Senator, says with a dose of sarcasm, "He's got everybody in positions of power trying to undermine him--by saying what? That when he was sent by his boss to say nice things about him, he did? Yeah, God, there's a crime. That's unusual in Washington." Clarke told the commission that when the White House asked...
...solution, says engineer Bob Bernhard, co-director of Purdue University's Institute for Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways, is to change not the tires but the road surface. "You can make the pavement porous," he says, "which affects the air-pumping mechanism. You can also mix a little rubber in with the asphalt, which changes the road's stiffness." Porous surfaces are already being rolled out in parts of Georgia, Florida and Arizona, as well as in Europe...
...Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan famously plugged in and used electric instruments to give a rock-'n'-roll charge to folk music. Less famously, in a '94 concert on MTV, Dylan plugged out, giving the alt-rock generation an intimate acoustic look at his musical mastery. That concert, MTV Unplugged, will be released this week on DVD for the first time, along with four extra songs--including his classic Desolation Row--that weren't in the original TV broadcast. --By Christopher John Farley
...apology illuminated the course the White House chose not to take. The President had already admitted to Bob Woodward that he "didn't feel that sense of urgency" about al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. If Bush had said last week that he was new to the job, that his interests were in other areas and that an attack on the scale of 9/11 was unimaginable, he would have received the benefit of the doubt. Instead, he chose cynicism and pettiness-a response that, in biblical times, brings down not only the wrath of prophets but an occasional plague of locusts...