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Love doesn't take you far in politics, but until last Wednesday, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, might not have known it. "I love George W. Bush," Welch said during the presidential campaign. Bush loved Welch back, considering him for a Cabinet spot and earlier this summer dispatching members of his Administration to Brussels to lobby the European Union on behalf of Welch's proposed--and ultimately rejected--merger with Honeywell...
...taking on him. The eyes sagged. The usually smooth skin seemed more wrinkled. The smug smile would occasionally straighten, the corners of his thin-lipped mouth almost turning to a resigned frown. If he was bitter, however, he would never admit it, not to a reporter, nor to his Cabinet, and probably not to his friends. Yet the possibility his tenure would be abbreviated by a guilty ruling had become the defining attribute of his term. Implicit in every question was If, as in, If you are still in office, If you are still Prime Minister, If you can lead...
...During a dinner at the Suan Bua resort on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thaksin sits surrounded by his Cabinet ministers who are taking a break from a two-day retreat where he is formally articulating his policies. Despite his tub-thumping election campaign he has not actually said what he stands for?aside from his vague blandishments about technology and the future. In his first few months in office he sent conflicting foreign-policy signals, telegraphing an isolationist message at an April conference in Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve...
...make the story seem contemporary, Lawrence introduces a medicine cabinet full of new pharmaceuticals and shaves more than 20 years off the women's ages (when Shadow opens in 1987, the women are roughly the same age they were when the first book ended in 1965), but she does little else to update Susann's formula...
...precisely the failure of one-off air strikes and the killing of individual militants to end Palestinian attacks that has many voices in Sharon's cabinet and security forces demanding that Israel go in and destroy the Palestinian Authority altogether, forcing Arafat and his leadership cadre back into exile. That pressure will, no doubt, grow in the coming days, although Sharon has strongly resisted it. As emotionally appealing as such a course might be to an Israeli public whose nerves are frayed by the endless violence, it carries even more serious dangers. Going in to destroy the PA would leave...