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When Bush came to office--installed by the Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al Gore--I speculated that the new President would have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be successful. He chose the opposite path, and his hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of governance and a comprehensive failure. I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine...
...That may be why Citibank, the number four retail bank in the U.S., chose to launch its application without partnering with a carrier. The downside of this strategy is that the onus will be on the user to download the application, and even once they do, the Citi Mobile icon will be hard to find since it will be buried inside menus on each phone. When Wachovia launches its mobile-banking service later this year, on the other hand, its icon will get prominent placement on AT&T branded phones...
...your story claimed that president George W. Bush chose Cheney as his running mate. Have you already forgotten that Cheney chose himself? Cheney has been running the show ever since, not sock puppet Bush. John Lovejoy, Lebanon, Oregon...
...Your story claimed that President George W. Bush chose Cheney as his running mate. Have you already forgotten that Cheney chose himself? Cheney has been running the show ever since, not sock puppet Bush. John Lovejoy, LEBABON, OREGON...
...little to do with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism by rallying academics behind free speech and the independence of universities, leading the circle of critics who saved America from paranoid implosion. It is no coincidence, then, that he is remembered as one of the strongest and most effective Harvard presidents of this century: “the transformer...