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Jonathan Winer, a former Kerry staff member, says the policy process usually involves a political component: "He always asks, 'Who else likes it?' 'Who doesn't?' 'Why don't they?' 'Why haven't we addressed that argument?' And when all those questions are answered, he goes off and makes his decision." Sometimes, however, it takes a while. According to advisers, the decision-making process on all three crucial votes he has cast on Iraq, starting with his vote against the first Gulf War in 1991, was brutal...
...stake was first offered to two Chinese firms, but the other consortium members chose to exercise their contractual right to divvy up BG's share, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. Then, in June, Nazarbayev declared the state had the right to buy BG's stake. The government's argument: it owns the subsoil rights to Kashagan and so has a pre-emptive option to buy. "When the government wants to buy a stake at market prices, it doesn't hurt or damage the other contractors," says Uzakbai Karabalin, head of KazMunaiGaz. "All the government wants is to exercise its right...
...shocked by Moore's documentary have not been paying attention to current events and what they are signaling loud and clear. Liz Rose Santa Cruz, California, U.S. Critics are willing to apply a stricter standard to Moore's presentation of his opinions than they do to Bush's argument for his. That's exactly the reason Moore's movie is necessary. Those who desired a serious debate in the lead-up to the Iraq war waited in frustration for serious journalists to ask hard questions and apply critical scrutiny to the Administration's case. Moore's questions are the ones...
...Nathan Lane Broadway?s greatest star ever? You could make the argument. With him hamming it up as theatrical impresario Max Bialystock, The Producers is a sellout smash; with anybody else in the role, it?s just another struggling Broadway musical. If he takes a liking to a project - a revival of Butley, say, which he starred in last year in Boston - it is immediately eyed as a possible candidate for Broadway. And if he wants to revive a little-known Stephen Sondheim musical - and not just star in it, but rewrite the thing too - darned...
...press his buttons." Hammett, 41, shy and soft-spoken, would try to play the peacemaker. "I've always been monkey in the middle," he says. Nothing, not even Towle and his $40,000-a-month fee, could prevent things from going nuclear. After one particularly brutal argument, Hetfield storms out of the studio and slams the door behind him. Without a word of explanation, he goes into rehab for alcohol addiction and does not return for 11 months. Ulrich and Hammett watch their ex-bassist's new band, Echobrain, and wonder if Metallica are washed up. Ulrich is vilified...