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This Newsweek article asks: "As a growing number of female executives rise to the top, how will they change the culture of the workplace?" Whats your take?

It took almost three weeks, but Angela Merkel is now — pending coalition talks — Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting. Working together with the Social Democrats will likely mean less power in Merkel’s hands. SPIEGEL spoke with her about her plans for the next government, social justice, and just how annoying Edmund Stoiber really is. You can read [...]

The Washington Post reports: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that initial assessments indicate Iraqis had probably approved a controversial constitution, although the turnout alone showed the fragile new political process has taken hold despite a deadly insurgency.
"There’s a belief that it has probably passed," Rice told reporters traveling with her, based on people [...]

A tropical storm warning was issued for the Cayman Islands on Saturday and residents, many of whom had not removed the hurricane shutters from earlier storms this season, began preparing for the worst.
The system could become Tropical Storm Wilma on Sunday, which would make it the 21st named storm of the season, tying the [...]

Interesting times ahead, as the Washington Post reports here: The conservatives’ noisy split over the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination has largely obscured the fact that Senate Democrats could control her fate in a way that was never possible in the confirmation battle over Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. While the turmoil on the [...]

Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff discussed with New York Times correspondent Judith Miller the fact that the wife of a White House critic worked for the CIA on as many as three occasions before the woman, Valerie Plame, was publicly identified, according to a Times account published today. See this Washington Post article for [...]

U.S. intelligence agencies are being drawn into the debate over government preparations for a deadly flu pandemic. But are top secret briefings good public policy? asks Newsweek here.  Whats your take?

Pat Robertson in the news again here from the WP: The rhetorical hit man who opined several weeks ago that Chavez, the Venezuelan president, should be assassinated now has thrown down the gauntlet for senators who oppose Miers’s nomination for the Supreme Court.

CNN reports: The Romanian government has confirmed the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza is present in Romania, the first instance of the lethal strain known to have reached Europe. See also from CNN: Bird flu: What you need to know.