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...proved less than skillful with Congress, where the center-left PRI still has a strong plurality and which last month torpedoed Fox's ambitious $9 billion fiscal-reform plan after he insisted on an unpopular sales tax on food and medicine. That has dampened prospects for other measures dear to investors, such as opening the energy sector to foreign capital and revamping Mexico's ossified labor unions. Though polls show Fox is still popular, "he keeps overestimating the political power of that personal appeal," says pri Congressman Carlos Flores. Fox has also seemed hesitant or unable to tackle dark human...
...many times can someone sell the same dead puppy to the same dupes? North Korea's Kim Jong Il is currently conducting an international experiment to determine the answer to this question. The merchandise the Dear Leader is hawking isn't really a dog that won't hunt, of course?it's another phony nuclear deal. And the credulous buyers aren't simpletons at a county fair?they're top Western and Asian statesmen. Given the high stakes in this sting and the sophistication of the intended victims, you'd think the game would have been shut down before...
...dubbed him Sizzle instead, just to rib him, and the nickname stuck. That's how he signed his letters home from Baghdad. His early missives have the tone of a jokester writing to a friend, not to a worried mom back in Pine Bluff, Ark. They open with "Dear Chocolate"--his name for her--and include macho tales of his refusal to duck while under fire, followed by admonitions not to worry. He cracks jokes about how insurgents once lobbed rockets at his unit's base as the soldiers lay in bed. "My son," says Catherine, "has a weird sense...
...Following freshmen on a Saturday night: Dear Dean Nathans, The Following Students Were Drinking Underage Last Weekend, Punish Them
...didn’t cry out of fear for the future. I was just overwhelmed by my sense of pride that the country where I had been born and was the home of my entire extended family was, ultimately, on the side of all the values I held dear...