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...members of Congress. He echoed Colin Powell's quip that the French foreign minister suffered an attack of the vapors when he suggested the "axis of evil" formulation was simplistic. In a private meeting with Japanese officials, it was Powell who had to explain what "apoplectic" meant to his counterpart when Bush used that word to refer to the European overreaction to his global warming stance. The president sees many of his European critics as incapable of understanding what it means to be a leader...
...House floor, the wily DeLay hunched over a computer screen, tracking the votes of G.O.P. Congressmen. His Democratic counterpart, California Representative Nancy Pelosi--undertaking her first big assignment as the new minority whip--darted around the chamber, keeping wavering Democrats from changing their mind. As time ran out on the vote, DeLay looked back at the rear door to see if any more stragglers were coming. Finally, he drew a finger across his throat: the signal to end the vote tally. The poison pill failed by a narrow 219-to-209 vote...
...early 1990s, I attended a Washington lunch at which Admiral William Crowe, who had just retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked about taking his Soviet counterpart to visit the admiral's hometown in Oklahoma. The Russian general wanted to know what holiday was being celebrated. None, Crowe told him; his neighbors just flew the flag from their stoops as a matter of course...
...doesn't Mbeki lower the boom on his dictatorial northern counterpart? The answer probably lies in Mbeki's greater plan for African solidarity, as espoused in the New Partnership for Africa's Development drawn up by him and other African leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Eygpt and Algeria. NEPAD involves a "peer review" process to censure, possibly even intervene in, states that do not practice good governance. But Mbeki is not prepared to take such action unilaterally...
...from confrontational situations in the POW camp. Farrell, as well as Marcel Iures (who plays German Col. Wilhelm Visser) and Terrence Howard (who plays Hart’s client), all upstage Willis’ colonel. In fairness to Willis, however, his character is much less dynamic than his German counterpart or his subordinates. While these other three characters each get the chance to glorify their position with a speech, Willis never utters more than a few lines, all delivered in the same manner. Interestingly enough, both Hart and McNamara sport scars on their left cheeks, one of the subtle details...