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The former senator, dead at 86, was a voice of conservative dissent, but his campaigning skills were formidable
With over 200 public figures attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss town is set to be a real-life who's who of international statesmen and politicians. Below we've profile a few of this year's big hitters.
The assassination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel and its ramifications for Middle East politics continues to dominate the editorial pages of many major world papers. The Guardian in the UK says Gemayal's murder is "a brutal gesture of contempt for the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets after the murder of Rafiq Hariri last year, and seemed to have taken control of Lebanon."
So, one of the most secretive and repressive nations on Earth has tested a nuclear device: the "real" question, obviously, is not what this means for the peace of the world, but whether it pushes the Mark Foley scandal to the political sidelines. So let's ask: When does an unexpected news event change the subject?
Abu Qarrar was young, rotund, and seemed new to the mujahedeen lifestyle. He hadn't memorized much of the Quran, unlike his more senior counterparts. He sometimes sneaked glances at the women on the music-video channels when he thought no one was looking.
It occasionally occurs to me that if I could understand the Bush administration's foreign policy, I might like it. After months of threatening Iran with everything up to and including nuclear war, we are now full of Sweet Reason and offering to have diplomatic talks with the very people we have been denouncing as Beyond Vile.
Reportedly, following the replacement of Andy Card as White House Chief of Staff by Joshua Bolten more changes of Administration personnel are expected. Also there are the sudden openings at the White House, namely the vacancy Bolten leaves at the Office of Management and Budget and the need to replace Claude Allen as domestic policy adviser. The problem the president and his staff have is finding replacements with "stature." That is the word used in the media, "stature."
After the national nightmare of September 11, 2001, those urging their fellow Americans to pursue a particular activity or to support a particular public policy -- whether drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or outlawing civil unions between gay Americans, or buying a new car -- would often argue that their fellow Americans' unwillingness or refusal would force the world to conclude: "... then the terrorists have won!"
About 50,000 newly released pages of documents from the Nixon administration primarily address the war in Vietnam but also deal with topics including the Supreme Court nomination of William Rehnquist, the pardon of union leader Jimmy Hoffa and efforts by Ross Perot to help prisoners in Vietnam.
The U.S. Treasury has told China that it must revalue its currency by at least 10% against the dollar to prevent protectionist legislation in the U.S. congress, the Financial Times reported in its international edition Tuesday.
The former senator, dead at 86, was a voice of conservative dissent, but his campaigning skills were formidable
With over 200 public figures attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss town is set to be a real-life who's who of international statesmen and politicians. Below we've profile a few of this year's big hitters.
The assassination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel and its ramifications for Middle East politics continues to dominate the editorial pages of many major world papers. The Guardian in the UK says Gemayal's murder is "a brutal gesture of contempt for the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets after the murder of Rafiq Hariri last year, and seemed to have taken control of Lebanon."
So, one of the most secretive and repressive nations on Earth has tested a nuclear device: the "real" question, obviously, is not what this means for the peace of the world, but whether it pushes the Mark Foley scandal to the political sidelines. So let's ask: When does an unexpected news event change the subject?
Abu Qarrar was young, rotund, and seemed new to the mujahedeen lifestyle. He hadn't memorized much of the Quran, unlike his more senior counterparts. He sometimes sneaked glances at the women on the music-video channels when he thought no one was looking.
It occasionally occurs to me that if I could understand the Bush administration's foreign policy, I might like it. After months of threatening Iran with everything up to and including nuclear war, we are now full of Sweet Reason and offering to have diplomatic talks with the very people we have been denouncing as Beyond Vile.
Reportedly, following the replacement of Andy Card as White House Chief of Staff by Joshua Bolten more changes of Administration personnel are expected. Also there are the sudden openings at the White House, namely the vacancy Bolten leaves at the Office of Management and Budget and the need to replace Claude Allen as domestic policy adviser. The problem the president and his staff have is finding replacements with "stature." That is the word used in the media, "stature."
After the national nightmare of September 11, 2001, those urging their fellow Americans to pursue a particular activity or to support a particular public policy -- whether drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or outlawing civil unions between gay Americans, or buying a new car -- would often argue that their fellow Americans' unwillingness or refusal would force the world to conclude: "... then the terrorists have won!"
About 50,000 newly released pages of documents from the Nixon administration primarily address the war in Vietnam but also deal with topics including the Supreme Court nomination of William Rehnquist, the pardon of union leader Jimmy Hoffa and efforts by Ross Perot to help prisoners in Vietnam.
The U.S. Treasury has told China that it must revalue its currency by at least 10% against the dollar to prevent protectionist legislation in the U.S. congress, the Financial Times reported in its international edition Tuesday.
A leading Republican senator said Sunday that President Bush's pick for U.N. ambassador has his vote "at this point," but added that he was troubled by criticism of the nominee.
Former President Clinton will undergo heart bypass surgery as early as Saturday, sources said. Clinton, 58, was undergoing tests for chest discomfort Friday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
With the transfer of power in Iraq now a done deal, the question arises: When should U.S. troops pull out? Two former presidential advisers strongly disagree on possible exit strategies, using comparisons to the Vietnam War as a reference point.
It is Jan. 20, 2005. A suitcase nuclear bomb explodes on the National Mall during an Inaugural ceremony. The incoming President and Vice President, the incoming cabinet (none yet sworn in), the ent...
After resisting the idea for months, the White House announced Wednesday its support for a request from the commission investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks for more time to complete its work.
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-- Henry Kissinger, 71, ex-Secretary of State, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, on political prospects in the former Soviet Union: "In 500 years, no Russian leader has ever left office vo...
Half a dozen CEOs of major global corporations -- men from the worlds of autos, banking, oil, railroads, electronics -- met privately in Chicago not long ago to assess the future of world business....
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John Whitehead, 69, is accustomed to managing Big Money for Very Important People. Since 1989, five years after he left as co-chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs and shortly after retiring fr...
''The flash of the 1980s is gone. Corporations want speakers with substance and ethics, or at least speakers who are not tainted.'' So says Don Epstein, president of Greater Talent Network, a New Y...
We begin by fastening on three thoughts about the U.S. defense budget that have lately swum into focus. (1) Owing to an outbreak of sweetness and light in the world, the budget will be cut big. (2)...
Two years ago, your correspondent had a part-time tour of duty in the Pentagon, serving as editor for a high-level group called the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (CILS). The commissio...
For Henry Kissinger it was the ultimate aphrodisiac. For Tacitus it was the most flagrant of all passions. For Oliver Wendell Holmes it was the only prize much cared for by the powerful. Endlessly ...
Nexis, as ever our guide to the prevalence of loaded phrases, reports 210 sightings of ''militarization of space'' (hereafter MOS) since 1986. Having now sampled the sightings quite extensively, we...
Curious, is it not, how those personal computer magazines are chockablock with ads for tax programs at this time of year, as though you need a diskette to communicate with the revenuers, and meanwh...
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