Brandy Anderson, a former director of public policy for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), has gone to work for the Century Council, a nonprofit organization founded and funded by major liquor distillers including Allied Domecq Spirits, Bacardi and Pernod Ricard. Anderson has also worked as a senior manager at the Washington, D.C., PR firm Blakey & Agnew.

A new annual journalism award has been created in honor of Michael Kelly, who edited publications including The New Republic, National Journal, Atlantic Monthly before he was killed while covering the war in Iraq.

"It's not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to make some of its own cosmetic touch-ups to history," writes Dana Milbank. "White House officials were steamed when Andrew S. Natsios, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said earlier this year that U.S.