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...Even if Annan isn’t directly held responsible for the failures of this department, he’s certainly an unexceptional administrator. To boot, a scandal to rival liberals’ favorite refrains about Bush’s oil ties is in the works currently at Rockefeller Center. Instead of alleged conflict of interests with Halliburton, however, the recent scandal from the Oil-for-Food program is quite real. In this instance, while Saddam was skimming money off his side of the budget to pay sympathizers in other countries that kept his regime afloat diplomatically, Kofi made sure...
More proof that the people who made America were smarter than the people who made American Idol: the Founding Fathers had the foresight to create institutions to keep voters in check. Reality-TV connoisseurs were abuzz last week when the show's dial-in audience voted to boot JENNIFER HUDSON, a looker with a great voice, over candidates much less favored by the judges. Two other black singers wound up in the bottom three, and theories for the upset ran the gamut from racism to a power outage in the Midwest, Hudson's home. (Our theory: blame Florida.) After...
...Boston Red Sox took it upon itself, just days ago, to boot the Beanpot Baseball Tournament—and our very own Harvard baseball team—from Fenway Park. I’m so happy I could climb the Monstah...
...interim constitution and escalating pressure for direct elections to be held quickly is precisely that they fear that the U.S. and its Iraqi allies intend to dilute the power they believe should accrue to their two-thirds majority of the population. They've been kept under the boot-heel of successive Sunni regimes for the past 80 years, and the whole point of their increasingly confrontational strategy is to press for democratic majority rule and not only prevent any expansion of minority influence in the future political order, but actually roll back some of that which has been included...
...responsibility" in financing health costs, Raffarin has warned that "another four years of doing nothing risks increasing the service's deficit to €100 billion." No matter how the final vote breaks down, a major government shake-up now seems certain, with the most controversial cabinet members getting the boot. Education Minister Luc Ferry is vulnerable for mishandling controversial school reform, Health Minister Jean-François Mattei is dogged by his slow response to the heat wave that caused 15,000 deaths last August, and gaffe-prone Ecology and Sustainable Development Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin is also ripe...