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...press the Total key on your calculator just yet. Congress is also supposed to appropriate another $3.3 billion to finance research on new high-tech batteries that could be used for cars. The money had been authorized under the same 2007 energy bill that authorized the $25 billion...
...will need all those attributes in the next few months. In taking on the task of prosecuting the largest swindle in history, he has accepted a role that brings with it enormous public scrutiny, which could be uncomfortable for a guy that is said to be low key. "He is the opposite of a press hound," says Glenn Colton, a partner at law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, who has worked with Litt...
...already picked two experienced deputies in James Steinberg, a former top official under Bill Clinton, who will be her chief aide; and Jacob Lew, who will be in charge of planning and managing the financing needed for her proposed expansion of the department. More recently, Clinton tapped two key advisers: Dennis Ross for the Middle East, and Richard Holbrooke for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Both men are powerful, occasionally controversial figures, known for taking blunt positions on issues and pursuing ambitious diplomatic agendas...
...Blair's loyalty to Bush seems unshakable. Everyone has had a pal who is more trouble than he's worth; the kid who gets you into scrapes only to dematerialize just when the teacher catches you suspending a bucket of water over the classroom door; the roommate who loses keys, drinks the last of the milk and never washes the dishes. Blair, among Britain's most able and successful leaders, had the misfortune to befriend Bush and become embroiled in the U.S.'s international adventures. For this he has been named the recipient of the U.S.'s two top civilian...
...four-star out in one of the regional combatant commands when Secretary Rumsfeld and his crowd came in. When he wanted to take his first look at key questions, he'd call on a bunch of old, retired officers who he happened to know in his former life to study things that were the clear responsibility of the uniformed services, and it was just a disaster." - On how not to hand off military command from one Administration to the next (September 19, 2008 interview with Time...