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...departure liberated, rather than doomed AAAS; its scholarship has progressed not in spite of, but precisely because of his absence. West is a virtuoso indeed—in every pursuit (film acting, political consulting, autobiographical writing, musical recording) but serious research and analysis. Far from providing the AAAS clout, West stifled its real scholastic accomplishments with the oversize presence of a top-notch showman...
...Brotherhood uses its clout may be determined by younger leaders like el-Erian, who heads the party's political department. A practicing physician, el-Erian, 51, joined the group after Israel's defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War helped spur a revival of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world. He was among thousands of activists rounded up at about the time a Muslim extremist assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After a year in prison, el-Erian won a seat in parliament in 1987, serving three years before being jailed again...
...there any chance that 2006 will be brighter? "Economic reform is the A and Z of Europe now," says MacShane. Perhaps once the big Continental economies pick up, he suggests, Europe can feel its oats again. Others doubt whether Europe's current crisis-laden leadership has the clout and vision necessary to deliver any viable solutions. "The European integration process is in a very different place now to 10 or 20 years ago, and I don't think many people have made the mental leap needed to reflect that," says Mark Leonard, director of foreign policy...
...than investing it to generate income locally. "All the money ends up with shopkeepers and traders from Bamako [the capital]," he says. The trick now is to find programs that maximize the benefits of remitted cash while avoiding some of its downside. Some migrants are now using their economic clout to perform work usually done by big aid organizations. Ambadedi's workers' association in Paris, for example, funds some village projects with its members' own earnings. But the association also solicits help from the French government and the European Union. "We have a project under way to purify the village...
...Gaylord, an IOP fellow and veteran Republican strategist who worked for Newt Gingrich when he was speaker of the House of Representatives, said candidates should run issue-focused campaigns rather than “personality fights.” He suggested that President Bush may have eroded his political clout by spending more time campaigning than governing this past summer, when he toured 65 cities to push his social security plan. Lisa Davis, another fellow who worked on the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign, argued that campaigning on specific policy issues, not during the election season...