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...Bentsen, 85, courtly, influential former Senator from Texas and Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1988; in Houston. As the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1987-92 and Bill Clinton's first Treasury Secretary, the pro-choice, pro-business Democrat was widely admired as a bipartisan coalition builder. Yet Bentsen will be forever remembered for a singularly potent moment during a 1988 debate. The vice presidential candidate on Michael Dukakis' ticket, he bridled at Dan Quayle, then 41 and a Senator from Indiana, who was defending his youth and experience by comparing himself to John F. Kennedy. "Senator...
...expected bid for reelection next year. "The last four years, Nagin hasn't worked well" with lawmakers, from the governor down to the New Orleans City Council, local political analyst and pollster Bernie Pinsonat said. "Maybe he's serious this time, but he hasn't been a bridge builder for the last four years...
...audience, absorbed by Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack?s very fine documentary about our era?s master builder. There are critics? represented in the documentary by a rather shifty-looking academic?who would resist that rather grandiose description of Gehry. But the truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
...Fidel Castro and a threat to hemispheric stability. But if Chavez can use his combination of financial clout and pan-Latin charisma to keep the Puerto Iguazu parties united, it would undoubtedly help raise his standing from an anti-U.S. firebrand to the sort of regional coalition-builder Latin America has never had. Alex Main, a former international relations advisor to Chavez, concurs: "This is the first time we've seen a real challenge to the unity of the new Latin American left, and to keep it together through all this would be a great achievement...
...REAPPOINTED. Nong Duc Manh, 65, as general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party; in Hanoi. Known as a canny consensus-builder, Manh remains head of a party beset by recent corruption scandals, including the resignation of the minister of transport over accusations he failed to prevent embezzlement of state funds by several officials. Manh pledged to combat graft while maintaining Vietnam's robust economic growth by accelerating market reforms...