Word: elective
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Honoring Obama Your article naming president-elect Barack Obama as Person of the Year was insightful, interesting and original [Dec. 29]. After two elections in which it seemed the American people cast their vote for the guy they'd most like to have a beer with, your article illustrated why we as a country voted a different way this time. I'm proud not because we elected an African American but because we finally elected the smartest guy in the room. Erin Pagel-Mohr, Redlands, Calif...
Your article naming President-elect Barack Obama as Person of the Year was insightful, interesting and original [Dec. 29]. After two elections in which it seemed the American people cast their vote for the guy they'd most like to have a beer with, your article illustrated why we as a country voted a different way this time. I'm proud not because we elected an African American but because we finally elected the smartest guy in the room. Erin Pagel-Mohr, REDLANDS, CALIF...
Puckett and other environmentalists are pushing for a full ban on e-waste exports. They're hopeful that the new Administration will prove receptive; as a Senator, President-elect Barack Obama co-sponsored a bill that in 2008 became a law barring the export of mercury...
...pull it off? It is telling that, by Jones' admission, he and Obama barely know each other. The President-elect picked Jones for National Security Adviser after meeting him face to face only a handful of times. In doing so, Obama is taking a calculated risk. The relationship between a President and his National Security Adviser--the person the Commander in Chief trusts to provide a candid assessment of the country's options--is crucial to success in foreign policy. Jones says that in his few meetings with Obama, he found that "[Obama] clearly is a man with really good...
...President-elect has wisely used the cover of "one President at a time" to avoid taking a position on the deepening Gaza crisis, but there's not much sand left in the hourglass. Very soon, he and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will have to hit the ground running with an initiative that shifts the media focus from whether Obama is going to distance himself from Israel to how diplomatically adept his new team is. And since he doesn't yet have that team in place, the challenge is even greater...