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...grappling with some important economic issues lately, but the poor guy has been squirming around in a tight political headlock. In recent years, the Right has wrestled the policy debate over to its side of the ring, and many perfectly sensible policies are now strictly off limits for any Democrat who hopes to get elected—which is most of them. Desperate to dodge the “liberal” label, Kerry has been boxed into a corner (if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor). And unless the Republican-imposed taboos can be broken, the country...
...platform—it’s like hunting for WMD in Baghdad. Gore didn’t dare touch it in 2000. President Clinton himself dropped the subject after 1994, when his wife’s plan went down in flames. Ever since, the Right has cowed Democrats on the issue by labeling any single-payer proposal as “Hillarycare” or “socialized medicine”. And the public pays the price—literally, in the form of escalating health insurance costs. Every year, health insurance costs ratchet up about 15 percent...
...Young, handsome and smarter than a truckful of generals, Ko Myo is a teacher by profession and my guide to the arcane politics of Burma. Thankfully, he's a patient one. On my first trip to Burma, he had bravely taken me to the house of a prominent democrat. Stupidly, I had no idea who she was or what risks Ko Myo had taken to bring me there. Today, he takes a spoonful of tea-leaf salad and shakes his head in mock disgust. "To think I risked a 10-year prison sentence for that," he says...
Still, what commissioners will no doubt ask is why, given the memo's strong assertions that bin Laden was bound and determined to strike inside the U.S., the warning didn't spur more action from the President. Commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, a Democrat, told TIME that he and like-minded panelists intend to press ahead with questions on "what occurred [inside the White House] between Aug. 6 and Sept. 11." Panel members will probably ask why the President didn't cut his vacation short or order emergency meetings with Robert Mueller, then the new FBI director. "Once...
...denies the charges, saying he is the victim of leftist magistrates. Berlusconi's lawyer said he will seek a one-month suspension of the trial during the walk-up to June's European Parliament elections. Nosing Ahead MACEDONIA Social Democrat Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski took the lead in the first round of the presidential election, winning 42.5% of the vote. He faces a runoff on April 28 against opposition candidate Sasko Kedev, who placed second with 34.1%. The election was held following President Boris Trajkovski's death in a plane crash in February. Clampdown on Dissent ARMENIA Using batons...