Word: democratization
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That's the kind of thing even the Bush White House notices. "See who gets Whouley," a senior official there fretted a few months ago. "He really matters." And more important, it's the kind of thing donors notice. "I think that John Kerry is the Democrat most likely to win back the White House, and that's what this election is about," says Alan Solomont, a Boston-area nursing-home executive and former Democratic National Committee finance chairman, who hasn't always supported Kerry in the past...
Front running has its advantages--as long as you're not a Democrat. While Republicans generally anoint someone early, Democrats have a history of treating their early front runners like hors d'oeuvres. "I'm going to do everything in my power not to be the Establishment candidate," Kerry insists. But it's looking more and more as if the Establishment thinks otherwise...
...burly 50-year-old took over in 1997, just a few people were being trained to spy abroad. Now scores of top recruits are moving through the system and into the field. Tenet's power to energize and reshape the bureaucracy comes from his political skills. A long-time Democrat who worked on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee under then chairman David Boren, Tenet knows how to get the right information across and has earned the trust not just of CIA skeptic Bill Clinton but also of George W. Bush and his father, who once...
Roosevelt #2 came in and did something that, until then, I never thought I would see a Democrat do; he made appeals to black voters. However, the conservative South, the moral compass of the nation, successfully kept the meddling federal governments from outlawing their Sunday afternoon lynchings and allowing clearly undeserving blacks to benefit from New Deal programs...
...Faisal sees no contradiction between her political views and the proudly displayed signed picture of Saddam Hussein on her mantelpiece: "Best wishes from my heart," the reads the dictator's Arabic inscription, in green ink. Although she acknowledges that Hussein is no democrat - "If I were in his shoes, I'd rule differently." - Faisal maintains that the Iraqi dictator is probably the most impressive leader in the Arab world. "He is an old-fashioned knight," she gushes. "He has charisma and an iron will - compared with him, the other leaders of the Arab world are small pygmies. Such...