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...another four years after steering the money supply (rather successfully) through a recession, a boom, a global currency crisis and whatever it is we're in now. Who's up next? Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson is brilliant, qualified, and Bush just renominated him. But the Fed Chairmanship is a political appointment, for friends and allies only, and Ferguson was Clinton's pick...
...cement was hardening by the time Cheney huddled with Jeffords around midday on Tuesday in the Vice President's ceremonial office off the Senate floor. The meeting did not go well. Sources say Jeffords told Cheney the Democrats had offered him a chairmanship. The Vice President walked Jeffords through the ramifications of a defection but had no answers for his complaints. "You better talk to him," Cheney told Bush...
...quirky, and I mean that with all respect," Karen Hughes said, adding, "There's something funny there." Aides described Jeffords, who has never met a camera he would preen for or a cheap shot he would take, as a powermonger seduced by Democrats with the promise of a committee chairmanship. This, although Republicans last week were offering to waive Senate rules and make him chair for life of the Education Committee if only he would...
...quirky, and I mean that with all respect," Karen Hughes said, adding, "There's something funny there." Aides described Jeffords, who has never met a camera he would preen for or a cheap shot he would take, as a powermonger seduced by Democrats with the promise of a committee chairmanship. This, although Republicans last week were offering to waive Senate rules and make him chair for life of the Education Committee if only he would...
...head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ahmed Qurei, becomes chairman of the Authority. But an election must be held in two months, in which anyone can conceivably be a candidate. But Fatah (the largest component part of the PLO) would have to pick a candidate for both the chairmanship of the PA and the PLO. (Arafat currently holds both positions...