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...Toughest Cabinet Job in Town Why Bush can't seem to find a good Treasury Secretary
...Member of Parliament and a major influence in Kazakhstani politics. The issue that now worries the country's ruling élites is whether Nazarbayev, 66, has the courage to launch long-promised political reforms, delegating many of his powers to the now subdued Majlis (lower house of Parliament), Cabinet and judiciary. "Even if they were necessary to get the country to where it is now, authoritarian ways have exhausted themselves," says Asylbek Bisenbayev, formerly Nazarbayev's spokesman and top strategist. Getting the country where it is now has taken guts, though. "Back in 1991, there was no money, no food...
...Hamas senior advisor, Ahmed Yousef, bluntly said: "There won't be a national unity government [with Abbas] if Hamas is asked to recognize Israel." Hamas now leads the Palestinian government; it won the majority of votes in last January's elections, and the beleaguered president cannot get a new cabinet approved by the legislature without the support of the militants...
...KNEW WHAT SEEMS TO BE TRUE NOW FUTURE EMPLOYMENT POSSIBILITIES Richard Armitage Press-friendly best bud of Colin Powell was thought to oppose the war without saying so publicly. Source of leak to discredit Joe Wilson, who tried to discredit Bush case for war. A bit discredited now himself. Cabinet post in a McCain Administration; failing that, he can always write his tell-all memoirs. Robert Novak Conservative pundit known as the Prince of Darkness; assumed (wrongly) by liberals to be Bush lackey. Always a war skeptic; complained that Armitage treated him "with disdain" in years before the leak. Will...
...Rather than heads rolling for infractions, the Cabinet agency has become a fault-free zone, Devaney claims. "Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of Interior," says the former Secret Service agent. "Ethics failures on the part of senior department officials-taking the form of appearances of impropriety, favoritism, and bias-have been routinely dismissed with a promise 'not to do it again.'" In numerous instances top officials who leave the department under a cloud, said Devaney, "are sent off with a party paying tribute to their good service...