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...wouldn't continue to ask the questions and that some parts of the media wouldn't rush to report the answers, believable or not. Soon it would be everywhere. The rationale for probing has only grown easier in this post-ideological period, since so many politicians are essentially saying "Elect me because I'm the better person." Is there not then a compelling need to know just how good a person that politician is? Is he or she a hypocrite...
...Linda Tripp just indicted --House Speaker Newt Gingrich lost his job --Speaker-elect Robert Livingston lost his job --Starr spokesman Charles Bakaly lost his job --Independent counsel no longer a job --Monica Lewinsky...
...only the IMF that needs to be persuaded that things are getting better. Russians go to the polls in December to elect a new parliament and, notwithstanding its reported budget surplus, the Kremlin looks to be suffering a political deficit. It got more bad news Thursday as a new political alliance between presidential aspirant and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and a grouping of regional governors announced it had invited ousted prime minister Yevgeny Primakov to head its list of candidates. "The Kremlin is very threatened by Luzhkov?s new bloc, particularly if ? as is expected ? Primakov agrees to lead them...
...kind that gets you a seat in Congress and then a desk in the Oval Office. So when it came to choosing their lifework, Kennedy's sons had no options. Long before voters ever heard of Jack, Bobby or Ted, their father aimed them at Washington. To be the elect in the Kennedy family meant simply to be the elected...
Indonesia may have trouble persuading anyone to bother voting next time around. The country supposedly ended 34 years of dictatorship by going to the polls in early June to elect a new president. But the results were only announced last week, more than a month late ? and then, on Monday, the process was thrown into turmoil when the country?s Electoral Commission, two thirds of which must endorse the result to make it stand, nixed the poll. Although the five major parties all gave the thumbs-up, a plethora of smaller parties represented on the commission cried fraud...