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These weren't setbacks. They were outright, no-spin defeats: thrilling, fleeting moments when democracy actually seemed to work, when the powerful were forced to concede the limits of their own clout and spin. Katrina was the turning point, the moment when the extent of cronyism, incompetence and sheer smugness in Washington reached a level that even the White House couldn't ignore. FEMA's Michael Brown, the American people surmised with their wide-open eyes, was not doing a "heck of a job." And a President who could say such a thing obviously had no clue about what...
...informal minutes of six meetings of the chairs, held between Sept. 15 and Nov. 10, reveal that the group has evolved into an influential body that continues to harbor strong discontent with how the Faculty is governed, and is attempting to use its growing clout to affect change by operating independent of the administration...
...GROWING CLOUT...
...Pope prophesied to Ratzinger that the German would be his successor. Whatever form the conversation took, the Church administrator was indeed chosen three weeks later by his brother Cardinals to succeed John Paul II. The new Pope has stepped onto the world stage with grace, warmth and an understated clout, qualities that make him our choice for European Newsmaker of the Year. A man often described as methodical and contemplative - even downright shy - has created a charisma all his own, one that seems to defy our turn-up-the-volume, look-at-me times. At 78, Benedict is the archetype...
...region's epic gap between rich and poor. But in Bolivia, the vote also threatens to tear the country apart. If no candidate wins more than 50% at the polls, a president must be chosen by Congress, where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President and IBM executive who currently trails Morales by some six percentage points in recent polls. So Morales - a 46-year-old Aymara Indian farmer who leads Bolivia's coca growers union and narrowly lost...