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...Here, George Kyriakos, the FT’s watches and jewellery editor, gives us an insight into what drives the obsession....
...“Geographically, Brussels is easy,” says contemporary art dealer Xavier Hufkens, who has three galleries in the city, most recently tripling the size of his site on the rue St-Georges with the architects...
...This is not Harriet Miers, the under-qualified candidate proposed by President George W Bush in 2005, only to withdraw amid general acrimony....
...Then in October, Mr Bush ran into a huge backlash after nominating his lawyer Harriet Miers, who later withdrew, to the Supreme Court....
...But when George W. Bush tapped his legal lap dog Harriet Miers for the court, it was the Republican right, which did not know her, that rose up in opposition....
...Karl Rove, the former political adviser to President George W....
...More noteworthy is the extent to which the establishment conservative commentariat, Charles Krauthammer, George Will and now David Brooks of the New York Times, are turning on Ms Palin....
...The protest came as Democrats in the House defied pleas from President George W. Bush to pass legislation already approved by the Senate....
...Karen Hughes, one of US president George W. Bush’s closest confidantes, is leaving her post as the under-secretary for public diplomacy....
...With the departure of Karl Rove, George W. Bush’s electoral mastermind, the US vice-president is seen as “the last man standing” in the administration....
...security adviser - May 2007 Randall Tobias, administrator, USAID - April 2007 Monica Goodling, Justice Department/White House liaison - March 2007 Francis Harvey, army secretary - March 2007 Harriet Miers...
...He is the third long-serving Texan adviser to quit the administration since January, when Harriet Miers stepped down as Mr Bush’s legal counsel....
...On Wednesday, the House judiciary committee issued a contempt citation against Josh Bolten, the White House chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, a former White House lawyer, for refusing to testify on the...
...Relations between George W....
...Karen Hughes, the senior US official given the task of boosting Washington’s image around the world, and one of George W. Bush’s oldest allies, on Wednesday announced her resignation....
...Yet, unlike many of the other Bush confidantes who have resigned recently – including Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Karen Hughes and Harriet Miers, Townsend was an outsider....
...The attorney-general, a longtime friend of President George W. Bush, is expected to testify before Congress on Tuesday....
...Bush’s chief political strategist, and Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel....
...As chief political adviser to President George W. Bush and bête noire of the Democratic party, Mr Rove had become the prime target of the investigations....
...House officials to testify under oath about the controversial sackings of eight US attorneys, as a second congressional committee authorised subpoenas for Karl Rove, the chief political aide to President George...
...Congressional Democrats turned up the heat in their investigation of what they are calling a political purge of senior prosecutors amid allegations that Karl Rove, the top political aide to President George...
...In January, Fred Fielding, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan administrations, was appointed White House legal adviser in place of Harriet Miers, a close friend and former personal lawyer to Mr Bush....
...The White House and Democrats dug in their heels on Wednesday in the battle over whether top aides to President George W....
...The matter has been under investigation by the Senate judiciary committee, which has put pressure on the White House to allow Karl Rove, President George W....
...President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he had confidence in Mr Gonzales but added: “Mistakes were made. And I’m frankly not happy about them.”...
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