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...knowing your audience. When he lunches with President Bush, as he did most recently in October, Bono quotes Scripture and talks about small projects in Africa that have specific metrics for success. Then he asks for more money to fund them. In the office of Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, he speaks of multilateralism and how development aid reminds the rest of the world of America's greatness. Then he asks for more money. In stadiums, he tells people that if they join together, they have a chance to make poverty history. Then U2 plays...
...worked unsuccessfully as a journalist for The Tallahassee Democrat and The Herald Examiner of Los Angeles, graduated from Harvard Law School, worked at Goldman Sachs, started his own hedge fund, and then co-hosted the CNBC stock analysis show Kudlow & Cramer. His show now attracts 384,000 viewers five nights a week. It has turned CNBC’s 6 p.m. slot into one of its most highly-rated hours...
...Banfield, whom he calls “reactionary” and who was later memorialized by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, former Harvard and current Pepperdine University Professor James Q. Wilson, and Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington. Cramer calls himself a McCain Democrat and says that money won’t make you happy—that it’s almost a curse. He grabs a legal pad and scribbles “$” and “Happiness” in big, messy letters. He writes...
Rebel conservative Republicans and Senate Democrats handed George W. Bush a major defeat Friday, but GOP officials insist it will end up backfiring in next year's mid-term elections. Despite intense pressure from the White House and Senate Republican leadership to extend for 4 to 10 years parts of the USA Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized...
...backroom haggling and front-and-center rhetoric over the Act's extension went on right up to the end. Earlier in the week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist declined an offer made by Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy of the Judiciary Committee to enact a three-month extension of the law to buy time for further negotiations. In the last few days, the White House dispatched Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to address the Senate Republicans' policy luncheon on Capitol Hill. But he failed to convince key Senators, such as Republicans Larry Craig of Idaho, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Lisa...