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...Presidential race was the subject of a fascinating media conference Oct. 13-14 presented by Time Warner and co-hosted by TIME and CNN. A series of roundtables probed everything from political advertising and polling to the role of media. The event featured names such as TIME's Joe Klein, Romesh Ratnesar, Mark Halperin and Karen Tumulty and CNN's Campbell Brown, Christiane Amanpour and Wolf Blitzer--as well as dozens of other heavyweights from the worlds of media and politics, including Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter, New York Times columnist Frank Rich, former ambassador Richard Holbrooke...
...profound effect on budget policy at that time, because Reagan was foundering a little bit during the early phase of his presidency ... He'd come out of an election--he had won an election that was closer than the score indicated ... but his grace literally under fire in that event, joking to the doctors as he was going under, and his recovery, I think, is a very good illustration of how, in an extreme set of circumstances, one's temperament can have an influence on politics...
...Rooney-Mahoney debate is scheduled for Oct. 24, but the campaign did not return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay...
...became an influential fixture in Chicago society. In 1995, Ayers and his wife hosted a coffee at their home in the leafy intellectual enclave here known as Hyde Park. The Obama campaign has stopped commenting on it. Based on other reports, the gathering may have been a campaign event for Alice Palmer, the Illinois state senator who was one of Obama's mentors and, at the time, was plotting a bid for Congress. It may also have been one of several coffees organized at the time to allow Obama to be introduced as Palmer's heir apparent. Or both. (Palmer...
...accusers are not limited to Nicaragua's small feminist organizations. The minister of women's affairs in Paraguay's new left-wing government, Gloria Rubin, whipped up a media storm in August by calling Ortega a "rapist" and protesting his invitation to President Fernando Lugo's inauguration - an event Ortega eventually skipped to avoid the heat. A week later in Honduras, Selma Estrada, minister of the National Institute of Women, resigned her government post in protest over the official invitation of Ortega to Tegucigalpa. And in El Salvador, feminist leaders are asking their government to declare Ortega persona non grata...