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...President will be a moderate Republican in Rockefeller’s mold, she told The Crimson in an interview yesterday. Whitman—who served as the first female governor of New Jersey from 1994–2001 before being named to President George W. Bush’s Cabinet as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency—now runs a political action committee, It’s My Party Too, which works to elect moderate Republicans. She spent the past few days at Harvard as a Visiting IOP Fellow, during which time she met with campus groups...
...Tuesday it appeared as if Prime Minister Qarase might be able to defy his nemesis Bainimarama. Holed up in his official residence in the suburb of Domain in the hills above the capital of Suva, Qarase seemed undaunted as he conducted media interviews and gave orders to his cabinet by cell phone. But by late afternoon, Bainimarama had named himself as president and declared he had taken control of the government...
Hizballah also accuses Siniora's ministers of secretly siding with Israel and the U.S. by failing to provide backup during the July-August war with Israel. With its massive street demonstrations, Hizballah hopes to intimidate the country's other parties into giving it more than the six Cabinet seats it had held, enabling it to block any legislation seen as contrary to the interests of Hizballah and its backers in Damascus and Tehran...
...What Cabinet-level agency advises the President on foreign policy...
...start, but the steep dip is feeding the perception that as strong as Abe appears abroad, at home he seems disengaged and clueless about the real concerns of voters. Despite his insistence that Japan has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, Abe seems unwilling or unable to rein in cabinet ministers who keep raising the unpopular issue. While Japanese are panicking over the decay of the educational system, Abe's answer is to push through a bill calling for a more patriotic curriculum. "The public wants education reform, but not anything like Abe is promoting," says Jeff Kingston, a professor...