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...Fueling the refugees' anger is the fear that Lapindo will walk away from its promises. Last September, PT Energi Mega Persada, a company controlling 50% of the Lapindo drilling project and connected to Bakrie, the Indonesian Cabinet minister, attempted to unload Lapindo for $2 to a company based on the island of Jersey but owned by Bakrie's family conglomerate. When Indonesian financial regulators blocked that sale, Energi Mega tried to sell half the beleaguered Lapindo to the Freehold Group, registered in the British Virgin Islands. That deal also collapsed amid controversy. The attempted corporate reshuffling raised fears among many...
...President since Chester A. Arthur has entered the White House without a pet. Warren Harding campaigned with his Airedale Terrier, “Laddie Boy,” and gave the mutt his own chair at cabinet meetings. The Scottish Terrier “Fala” belonging to Franklin D. Roosevelt ’04 had his own Secret Service moniker and became an election issue in 1944 when FDR allegedly sent a destroyer to the Sandwich Islands to retrieve the dog after leaving it behind there. Calvin Coolidge once remarked that “any man who does...
...Turkish government seemed unmoved by the Iraqi cabinet's statement on Tuesday condemning Turkey's incursion as a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty" and a "unilateral military action." The Turkish military sent ground troops into northern Iraq last Thursday to take on guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party...
...Another former Sarkozy plus now playing out as a negative is his tendency to aggregate power, often at the expense of cabinet ministers who traditionally handle day to day governing. Last week Sarkozy surprised a meeting of Jewish leaders by announcing plans to raise awareness of the Holocaust by requiring elementary school students to "adopt" the life and death of a child killed during the Shoah. Had Sarkozy bothered to consult more widely before making the announcement, he might have avoided the storm of criticism calling the plan inappropriate and potentially traumatic for such young children. He has since modified...
...weekend to dissuade Carrington, whom Thatcher viewed as a valued ally. He was one of the few members of the Cabinet who could exercise restraint over the headstrong Prime Minister. He once had the self-confidence to tell her, as she got ready for an important meeting with a touchy foreign leader, "Don't say anything for the first 30 minutes." Carrington turned down a face-saving ploy suggested by Whitelaw and Thatcher: the Foreign Secretary would offer his resignation, she would refuse to accept it, and he would then withdraw the proposal. Thus he would have done the honorable...