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...November. So he was careful to keep a certain distance; he ruled out being anybody's veep and joked about being Bush's "Secretary of Reform," a position he'll now fill in the Senate, on the trail and in front of the cameras with new and improved clout from now until at least November. Meanwhile, Bush didn't have much to do except stand there and remind everybody that the two have honest and manly beefs but "a lot more agreements than disagreements." He also paid a couple of obligatory compliments, calling McCain a "friend" and a "good...
...said he also does not want to limit himself to this one issue and hopes to work on increasing the clout of the student members' voices inside the board and in the University at large...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) loses the clout it once had, the Seneca has emerged as a new forum for women activists on campus...
...Money and Big Government. On Saturday night alone, police arrested nearly 600 anti-globalists for "parading without a permit." Thanks in large part to the Internet, which has allowed them to cement their bonds, air their grievances and swell their ranks, the activists have got their acts together, the clout of old-fashioned labor welded to the cybersavvy of campus radicals. Their growing movement makes Hands Across America look like a game of ring-around-a-rosy...
...Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba, say that kind of dialoguista thinking "just props up a dictator." Freyre counters that the demagogic feud with Castro is self-serving, propping up the political and economic clout of the C.A.N.F. in Miami--and in Washington, where the lobby can still make politicos like Al Gore do the Exile Shuffle. The Elian episodes certainly were additional steps in that hoary choreography...