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...Those deep economic troubles are unlikely to disappear with Estrada, as Arroyo concedes. "Things are so bad now," she says. "Oh yes, they can still get worse." Still, Arroyo has had a shadow cabinet since she quit Estrada's cabinet in October, and says she has big ideas for plugging the Philippines into the global economy. She talks about "structural reforms" and "a level playing field" - the kind of hip, business jargon that never escaped Estrada's lips. "Things can get better under us," she insists...
...dropped in on Capitol Hill from Mars last week, you might have thought George W. Bush had tapped liberals for two of his most sensitive Cabinet posts. John Ashcroft, the hard-right nominee for Attorney General, told astonished Senators at his confirmation hearing that he would "aggressively" enforce abortion laws and wouldn't challenge the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, even though he has spent much of his career trying to overturn it. In another hearing room, Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton, a James Watt disciple who used to champion the rights of oil companies and mine operators...
After a week of rolling parties for everyone from the Cabinet to the cleaning crew, parties so emotional that even Ironman John Podesta puddled up, it came down to saying goodbye to the household staff, which was rumored to have resented the Clintons since Day One. But everyone cried, even Hillary. She hugged one steward so long they segued into a waltz. Clinton gave them all his usual body slam. Another steward said, "I'm really going to miss you, but I hear the next people go to bed at nine...
...their late fifties, control the key positions of power in Khost and the whole of the two surrounding provinces of Paktia and Paktika. One brother, Amanullah Khan Zadran, looks after the family's affairs in Kabul where he is Minister of Tribal Affairs and Border Questions in the new Cabinet?a position that traditionally has gone to someone from Khost as a way of trying to keep the area more or less under Kabul's control. Another, Pachakhan Zadran, governs Khost, Paktia and Paktika. His deputy for Khost province is his 28-year-old brother, Kamal Khan. The youngest...
...latest accusations against Ashcroft are hurtful, according to congressional observers, but hardly career-ending. According to Paul Offner, who applied to a Missouri Cabinet post back in 1985, then-governor Ashcroft began their interview by asking him if he was gay. Offner, who, by the way, is now married, he was "stunned" by the question...