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...Bush struggled to explain away the past, Cheney was being investigated by the SEC and sued by Halliburton shareholders and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch. The allegation: that Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, greased the books to boost the firm's flagging fortunes. Its decline was due in part to Cheney's signature strategic move-Halliburton's merger with Dresser Industries in 1998, when Dresser was about to be buried under asbestos-contamination lawsuits. Halliburton remains burdened with the liability of more than 200,000 suits and as of last year was on the hook for $125 million...
...sort of a drifter, and they can’t understand how he got elected. I’ve had many of the same feelings myself, except that it’s perfectly clear to me how the Republican machine got him selected by the Supreme Court. When I explain to Europeans that he was a heavy drinker until the age of 40, that before he was president he had never visited Europe, that he rode into office on the shoulders of his daddy and the rest of the Bush clan, they are dumbfounded. Many people have laughed and said...
...Treaty, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol and countless other global accords—have done little to help America’s reputation. Steel tariffs, the death penalty, the reluctance to support the U.N. and to fight AIDS in Africa: these shock most Europeans. When I explain that most liberal Democrats (myself included) support changing these policies and signing these treaties, the Spanish are much more friendly. They are relieved to know that not everyone in America is ignorant, or insane, or selfishly turning their backs on the world’s problems...
Before returning briefly to his message of public service to end the discussion, Dukakis took some time to explain his belief in the need for government support for a national light-rail system...
...Politicking is second nature to Taufik, whom associates and adversaries alike characterize as a shrewd operator and a natural networker. "He's a grassroots politician in the populist tradition," says Rizal Ramli, a minister in the administration of Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati's predecessor. Those characteristics explain much of Taufik's current behavior, friends say. "He knows the perils and dangers of being political and the President's spouse, and yet he has embraced his position as a power broker," says Jeffrey Winters, an American academic and author of numerous books on Indonesia who is also personally close to both...