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...closeted with his Irish counterpart in Scotland, hammering out the final details of the St. Andrews Agreement on Northern Ireland, when Ahern's press secretary delivered the results of a new opinion poll. It had been taken in the wake of a scandal - the Irish media inevitably dubbed the affair Bertiegate - centered on loans Ahern accepted for personal use in 1993 and 1994 when he was Finance Minister. The Taoiseach explained that friends had stumped up the money to help him out after the breakup of his marriage had strained his finances; he also admitted that he didn't have...
...Klein is to be congratulated for his straightforward assessment of Bush and his Administration. This is a very scary, sad state of affairs. It is baffling to think that President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about an affair, while Bush hasn't gotten the same treatment for putting the country in such a terrible situation. Linda S. Boginsky, Livingston, New Jersey...
...Klein is to be congratulated for his straightforward assessment of Bush and his Administration. This is a very scary, sad state of affairs. It is baffling to think that President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about an affair, while Bush hasn't gotten the same treatment for putting the country in such a terrible situation. Linda S. Boginsky, LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY...
...Turkey, the choosing of a President is rarely the dramatic affair that it is in the United States. Turkey's President isn't even directly elected by the voters - he or she is chosen by the elected parliament - and the office carries limited powers. Still, the President does have the power to veto legislation, and is also considered an important symbol of the Turkish state. That's why the nomination for President this week by Turkey's ruling party of the country's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, has reopened fierce debates about the place of Islam in the ferociously secular...
...unique political mix. He combined a folksy Reaganesque simplicity with a Nixonian sense of political intrigue (and paranoia) plus a tendency toward accidents that recalled Gerald Ford. He once fell into a small river near his dacha outside of Moscow, surely drunk, possibly related to a tawdry love affair. On another occasion he was too soused to leave his plane to meet with the Irish Prime Minister - even as aides committed the ultimate lese majeste and slapped him hard to bring him to consciousness...