Word: bipartisanism
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Varmus's tenure at NIH saw enormous success for the institute, both in gaining bipartisan political support and in recruiting talenting researchers. The New Yorker called Varmus perhaps "the most effective backstairs politician the Clinton Administration has produced." Congress gave him the highest compliment of all: a $5 billion funding increase...
...list of non-military threats to the well-being of American citizens goes on. A recent report by the bipartisan Commission on America's National Interests cited that ensuring the viability and stability of major global systems, such as the environment, was vital to national self-interest. Madeleine Albright recently declared AIDS a threat to U.S. national security. Both decisions were well-substantiated. Environmental problems can either directly affect the well-being of Americans or act indirectly by destabilizing foreign regions, posing a potential threat to the U.S. The same reasoning applies to public health problems, with the AIDS pandemic...
...James Earl Jones - not the Darth Vader version, but rather the stern but loving father figure of "Field of Dreams" or "The Lion King." That quality which once made Powell so attractive as a possible presidential candidate will probably also make his confirmation hearing one of those festivals of bipartisan deference usually reserved only for Alan Greenspan...
...years ago will offer a blueprint for how he might achieve the goal. In the mid-1990s, the agency upset G.O.P. boosters of a missile shield because it kept reporting that any nuclear threat, beyond Russia and China, was at least 15 years away. But Rumsfeld and his bipartisan panel concluded in July 1998 that Iran, Iraq and North Korea posed near term threats, and that they could hide their missile-building progress until shortly before launching an attack on the U.S. North Korea bolstered the report's contentions when it fired a long-range missile over the Pacific...
...probably won't. While some Democrats (and a few Republicans) are sure to pinpoint aspects of Powell's professional life they're not absolutely comfortable with, most politicians realize that blackballing someone of Powell's stature and bipartisan popularity on the basis of an anti-Arab complaint is tantamount to career suicide. If, as several pundits have pointed out, Powell had given a speech to an Israeli group, we'd never have heard about it in the first place...