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Arafat imbued the Palestinian movement with self-deception. His legacy is a shattered economy, a bankrupt government and numerous militant organizations like Hamas...
...legislature. "He knows that for him to win, he has to use outside pressure, not inside deals," says Republican Congressman Dana Rohrbacher. When Democrats in the legislature balked at passing a $15 billion bond measure that Schwarzenegger put forward in November 2003 to prevent the state from going bankrupt, he appealed directly to the people in a special ballot last March. The bond measure passed easily. The Governor's spokesman, Rob Stutzman, is unapologetic about the end run. "The legislature is inherently not popular, the Governor is inherently popular, and we've shown we know how to use that...
When U.S. Investment Group, led by U.S.-based Ripplewood Holdings, bought the bankrupt Long Term Credit Bank in 2000 and tapped Masamoto Yashiro to run it, he set out to revolutionize the industry. Since taking the helm of the bank--renamed Shinsei, or Rebirth--Yashiro, 75, has presided over one of the most successful turnarounds in Japanese corporate history. With 30 years experience at Exxon and nine more at Citibank, Yashiro has never been a member of Japan's insular financial community. "I don't follow the Japanese way of doing things," he says. Yashiro talks about competition, profitability...
...deception. For years in Palestinian-controlled areas, he suppressed a free press, the element of society that might have furnished a self-correcting guidance to Palestinian policies. Arafat hurled Palestinian forces headlong into the brick wall of Israeli military strength. Yasser Arafat's legacy is a shattered economy, a bankrupt government and numerous militant organizations like Hamas. Donald Mintz Sunnyvale, California, U.S. Hot Times in the Arctic "Meltdown!" [Nov. 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol...
...deception. For years in Palestinian-controlled areas, he suppressed a free press, the element of society that might have furnished a self-correcting guidance to Palestinian policies. Arafat hurled Palestinian forces headlong into the brick wall of Israeli military strength. Yasser Arafat's legacy is a shattered economy, a bankrupt government and numerous militant organizations like Hamas. Donald Mintz Sunnyvale...