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Clint Eastwood Remembers Lennie Niehaus The actor, director, and jazz aficionado pays tribute to his decades-long arranging and compositional partner (6/1/29 – 5/28/20) PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 5, 2021 – CLINT EASTWOOD A few weeks ago, I was [filming Cry Macho] in New Mexico, and I got the word that he had passed on. I hadn’t seen him in a few years. We go back to the Army at Fort Ord in ’51 and ’52. In the evenings, I used to bartend at a junior NCO club. He was in the army, but in the music department. He used to come in...

The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former...

In a signal that he could be open to working more closely with congressional Democrats rather than stonewalling, President Bush plans to name the widely respected Republican lawyer Fred F. Fielding as White House counsel this week, party sources tell TIME. Fielding, who held the same position under President Ronald Reagan, will succeed the President's friend Harriet Miers, who last week announced her resignation, effective Jan. 31. An official who has been briefed on the impending announcement, which could come as soon as Tuesday, called Fielding "the ultimate Washington lawyer-insider — he's the man to see." "He's the guy who...

The 9-11 Commission: gone but not, the commissioners hope, forgotten. Not content to rest on their laurels, after the Commission "disbanded as a government entity" last year, the 10 commissioners believed so strongly in the need for continued public discussion about terrorism that it formed the 9/11 Discourse Project. So the commissioners keep on ticking, like the Energizer Bunny, although without an official charter. This week, the group started a series of eight public hearings this week called "The Unfinished Agenda" which are designed to assess government progress in implementing Commission recommendations. Why? In the words of Vice Chairman Lee...

A sliver of John G. Roberts's voluminous files from his years as a junior White House lawyer reveals a young man with a facile mind and a sharp and sometimes smart-alecky tongue. Mr. Roberts, who joined the staff of the Reagan White House while in his late 20's, worked from 1982 to 1986 in the counsel's office there dealing with virtually every major issue that came before the administration, including civil rights, the invasion of Grenada, immigration and the separation of powers. About 4,000 pages of his files from the White House years are available at the Ronald Reagan Presidential...

<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. - With new polling showing Gov. Gray Davis facing tough odds to save his job, jittery Democrats met around the state Monday to consider breaking ranks and urging U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein or another prominent party leader to run in the historic recall race.</p>

<p>Bill Simon's image needed polishing after last week's photo fumble, so he turned to one of the GOP's shining stars: former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. But it is unclear whether the luster will rub off on the Republican candidate for governor.</p>