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Regardless of whether the social club stays, plans are taking shape for the multimillion-dollar renovation of the Pudding building. At the time of purchase, FAS officials said the building needed major renovations...
Armed with the experience, the attitude and the requisite mandate from the president, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was going to be the guy who finally whipped the U.S. military into post-Cold War shape. But now, as his department scrambles to pull together a quadrennial review of Pentagon strategy and budgets before its Sept. 30 deadline, Rumsfeld is widely assumed to be losing the fight. The signs are grim: For a week, the New York Times and the Washington Post have peppered their front pages with stories on Rumsfeld?s fading luster; Slate suggests starting a "Rumsfeld Death Watch," predicting...
...Apocalypse Now Book), the quality of the resulting film could be irrelevant. But despite Coppola's protestation, Apocalypse Now is a movie--the most ambitious, artful attempt to capture on film the sundering trauma of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Like any movie, it can be assembled into any shape, any length, that its powerful auteur deems suitable. So last year Coppola went back into the jungle of his Vietnam vision to reimagine one of the worst and proudest experiences of his career...
...believes the Kyoto treaty is fatally flawed because it doesn't require developing countries to limit their fossil-fuel use immediately, as it does industrialized countries. So he kept the U.S. out of the discussions. In doing so, the Administration may have lost its last opportunity to help shape the international response to the problem. And Bush may be in danger of losing control over climate action domestically. After months of internal debate, the Administration is still "consulting" on the issue...
...They?re incredible statistics, but members of Congress - not to mention Democratic and Republican strategists - are much more interested in a totally different set of numbers gleaned from the 2000 census: They?re poring over the figures that will determine the shape...