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...test Rush Limbaugh and emerge unscathed. After Limbaugh took the RNC Chairman to task in front of his 20 million or so listeners, Steele retracted his remarks, saying, "There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership." So who is this conservative leader (or non-leader), how tightly does he have Republicans wrapped around his finger, and how many five-hour energy drinks did he consume to achieve his enormous decade-spanning staying power? (Read TIME's 1995 cover story about Rush Limbaugh...
...plans will do much good. Nevertheless, Democrats scampered to make Limbaugh the new mascot of the GOP and thus link the word conservative with the word failure. Gibbs urged reporters to ask if all Republicans "want to see the President's economic agenda fail." Michael Steele, the new party chairman, rushed to say no. Limbaugh, Steele said, is "an entertainer" given to "incendiary" and "ugly" overstatements. Like other GOP leaders who have tried to dismiss the broadcaster, however, Steele soon felt obliged to apologize to the man with the 20 million listeners. (See the top 10 campaign gaffes...
...doing so. Instead, they are trying to get the market to price the incredibly complicated mortgage-backed assets that are suffocating the economy by paying part of the cost for private investors to buy them off the banks' balance sheets. At the same time, the Federal Reserve, whose chairman, Ben Bernanke, took his own public flogging on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, is unveiling an aggressive plan to stimulate consumer, small-business, auto and college borrowing, an area of the economy that has in large part been frozen since the fall...
...downturn has also laid bare some ugly home truths - scandals indicative of a boom-years culture of nepotism and scant regulation that some say is as much to blame for the nation's economic malaise as the global downturn. In December, it emerged that Sean FitzPatrick, the then chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland's third largest bank, had concealed from shareholders more than $100 million in personal loans by transferring them temporarily to a building society. After FitzPatrick quit, the Irish government stepped in to nationalize Anglo Irish, but the damage to public confidence had already been done...
...even though three of the Security Council's five permanent members - Russia, China and the U.S. - have not signed on to the statute.) Plus, the ICC has thus far only pursued Africans, in the Central African Republic and Congo as well as Sudan and Uganda. "That," said African Union chairman Jean Ping in February, "is a problem." Asking why no cases had emerged from conflicts in Gaza, the Caucasus, Colombia or Iraq, Ping said, "We don't want this double standard." (See pictures of Sudan's slow-motion tragedy...