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...were to ask the most partisan Democrat for a caricature of a Bush Administration regulator, it would go like this: someone who got rich defending the industry that he now oversees, someone who came into the job promising a "kinder, gentler" agency that offers "respect and cooperation" to those it regulates, someone who has met privately with his old clients while his agency was investigating them, and someone who, just to complete the picture, favors retro three-piece suits...
HANKS: Responsibility is the word I would use. Because if guys like me don't do it, who's going to? Sure it's an obligation, but the Jeffersonian anarchist in me, the 1960s spirit of the Peace Corps, the Bobby Kennedy-esque young Democrat that I've always considered myself to be is the guy who says, "Don't curse the darkness; light a candle...
...center-left in recent local elections, the poll-happy Prime Minister has suddenly got shy about releasing his own popularity numbers. Berlusconi began picking up the pieces by naming Giuseppe Pisanu, 65, as the new Interior Minister. More seasoned than his predecessor, Pisanu is a former Christian Democrat who helped build Berlusconi's Forza Italia into the country's largest party after the billionaire media mogul entered politics in 1994. But Scajola's departure comes just six months after Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero stepped down in a dispute over what he called the government's weak commitment to Europe...
...principled stand against a Backstreet Boy. Irritated by the flood of celebrities testifying in Congress (Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley in the past few months), Voinovich boycotted testimony by KEVIN RICHARDSON before the Environment and Public Works Committee. Kentucky native Richardson, who founded an environmental group, was asked by Democrat Joe Lieberman to speak on the dangers of mountaintop mining. Lieberman claimed that Richardson was "knowledgeable" because of flights he has taken over coalfields, but Voinovich called the appearance a "joke." Fortunately for him, the legal voting age is 18--otherwise he would surely be struggling for preteen support...
...eight weeks, and there are no viable applicants lined up to replace her. Time is short: vetting a candidate can take months, and then the nominee must be approved by the Senate, which will recess on Aug. 2. The Bush Administration is so desperate, it even asked Garvey, a Democrat, to stay. But she has had enough. Garvey is the first FAA chief in history to serve a five-year term. Even worse for the country's air-safety system, the FAA still has not been able to fill the job of chief operating officer, created by Congress...