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...President no doubt hopes that the images of this visit will wipe out those from a previous attempt to bond with troops, which became a public-relations disaster. His flight-suited jaunt in May to an aircraft carrier floating off San Diego--where Bush stood below a banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and declared an end to "major combat operations" in Iraq--seemed brilliant at the time, a powerful image of a triumphant Commander in Chief, a grateful recognition of the armed forces' resolve and an ideal subject for a 30-second campaign spot. But the event was too contrived...
...issues close to his heart. A combination of boldfaced wit, awkward social incompetence and a proclivity for pushing unpopular legislation doomed Lurie’s presidential run last year, in which he finished dead last. His prospects appear equally bleak this year. Last month the Salient ran a banner editorial headlined “Repeal Jason Lurie” in reaction to his muckraking against Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship’s exclusion of non-Christian students from its board last year...
...least $125 million, more than that of U.S. President George W. Bush?but tough campaign-financing laws limit the money that can be raised legally from deep-pocket contributors to $208,000 each. Says Roh Kwan Kyu, budget and accounting committee chairman for the Millennium Democratic Party (under whose banner Roh ran for the presidency): "It would be extremely difficult to get elected within the legal amount of money that is allowed...
...protecting reefs and 300,000 Muslim Maldivians from the twin dangers of global warming and the bikini-clad hordes who crowd the islands' 87 high-end resorts. Today, the 40,000 tourists who fly in every month are met by speedboat taxis moored in a coral lagoon and a banner that reads: "Welcome to the sunny side of life...
...past two decades, trade liberalization and privatization of public enterprise has carried the day under a banner known as the Washington Consensus. NAFTA, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the FTAA are among the institutions and frameworks designed to enshrine the Washington Consensus. Harold McGraw III, the chair of the Business Roundtable’s international trade and investment task force, cites World Bank estimates that the removal of trade barriers “could add $2,800 billion to the world economy by 2015, of which $1,500 billion would accrue to developing countries, lifting 320 million people...