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Third, condemning Bush's conduct of the Iraq war has become an overly handy cop-out for people who don't want to support the war but can't bring themselves to say it was wrong. This would include almost every Democratic candidate in last week's midterm elections. What would these Monday-morning quarterbacks have done differently? Sent in more American troops? Puh-leeze...
...when it comes to the Bush family and Iraq, the tragedy runs from stem to root. And so over the next few weeks, key members of Bush's father's vaunted foreign policy team--the real A-team of the Republican foreign policy establishment--will step in and conduct what amounts to a family intervention. Led by former CIA Director Gates and former Secretary of State James Baker, who co-heads a commission on Iraq, Dad's former aides will present the son with a plan for saving his presidency and, with it, some remnant of the family's brand...
...quantified goals for leadership and innovation or be sold. Tata Steel, for example, shed half its 78,000 workers between 1994 and 2005. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata code of honor, which sets groupwide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct...
...year, Democrats have had the wind at their backs all year long. Though George Bush is not on the ballot, his unpopularity is a drag on Republican candidates who are. Voters also tell pollsters they're distinctly pessimistic about the direction of the country and deeply skeptical about the conduct of the war in Iraq. All these forces have boosted Democratic chances for a takeover...
...take the drugs. He staunchly denied having sex with Jones-who in turn denied selling the pastor drugs-and insisted he had been "steady with my wife." But an investigation by the board of Haggard's 14,000-member New Life Church found him guilty of "sexually immoral conduct" and forced his resignation as senior pastor...