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...Bush has made mistake after mistake without ever offering an explanation or holding anyone accountable. This is the man we are trusting with our security? He is in denial while the rest of us look on aghast at his incompetence. I hope that all those who voted to re-elect him realize their mistake. Sue Brown West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. Bush's political antenna isn't broken; it is tuned to the interests of Big Money. The transmission is on an encrypted frequency, and it directs the President much like a radio-controlled toy car. Peter Farr Olympia, Washington...
LAWRENCE B. WILKERSON I'm principally a strategist, and from that perspective the war has been a disaster. First, the foremost winner has been Iran: it rid itself of its greatest threat, Saddam and his military, without firing a shot; won the Dec. 15 Iraq elections; owns the south, particularly Basra; and has felt the freedom to elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, in turn, has felt the freedom to reclaim leadership of radical Islam, leadership Osama bin Laden claimed on 9/11. Second, the foremost loser--after Iraq itself--has been Israel, whose leaders must now fear more than ever...
...retire in December. And the younger Sullivan said he plans to run for the position.The Sullivan family has played a prominent role in local politics for several generations. Michael A. “Mickey the Dude” Sullivan, grandfather of the current councillor of the same name, was elected to the City Council in 1935. There has been a Sullivan on the council ever since.After serving for 10 years on the City Council, Edward Sullivan was elected Middlesex County Clerk of Courts in 1958.If elected to his uncle’s post as county clerk, the current Councillor Sullivan...
...served as mayor of Cambridge between 1992 and 1995. He was the nation’s first mayor to be both African American and openly gay.Cambridge’s Plan E form of government makes the mayor a largely symbolic figure. The City’s nine councillors elect a mayor from amongst themselves every two years. A hired city manager, meanwhile, executes most of the daily operations of city government.Nonetheless, friends, colleagues, and local political experts say that Reeves can, and will, make the most of his emblematic post.“He gets the biggest kick...
...with the unprecedented conviction of 15 members of the military and former paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week has been significantly more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide. In 1990, shortly after Aristide was elected but before he took office his supporters had blocked an attempted coup d'etat, but then went on a rampage, burning buildings and attacking anti-Aristide leaders. Aristide's response was not to tell his supporters to go home; instead he said he was just the president-elect...