Word: foreigner
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Bush's grasp of the details and nuance of some domestic-policy issues--especially education--draws praise from experts around the country. He can also talk substantively and passionately about trade and immigration, two areas of "foreign policy" he encountered as Governor of a state that shares a 900-mile border with Mexico. Bush proved as much in Sioux City, Iowa, where he took a vague question from the crowd to deliver a message of compassion toward illegal immigrants. "I want to remind you of something about immigration," Bush told his nearly all-white audience. "Family values do not stop...
...which it has but one port. There was something else jarring about what Bush said. There is no such thing as an "inter"-ballistic missile. These mistakes may seem minor, but taken together they suggest that Bush is still under water when grappling with foreign- and defense-policy basics...
...Deputy Secretary of State. Talbott (a distant relative of Bush) was one of the class of 1968's most ambitious brains--editor of the Daily News, Rhodes scholar roommate at Oxford to Bill Clinton, and before joining the Clinton Administration, career journalist for TIME magazine, specializing in defense and foreign policies. "Strobe was the kind of person George could not stand," says Robert Birge, who was a member with Bush in Skull & Bones, a Yale secret society. "He was appalled by people like Strobe. I don't know why, but it was a real issue with...
...next available customer representative, is actually animated when he talks about Bush's failing the latest pop quiz. "Everyone would understand if he didn't know the No. 2 in Uzbekistan. But not knowing important world leaders underscores that people don't know whether he has a grasp of foreign policy. Or any other issues for that matter...
Some of Citi's other private clients included two sons of Nigeria's recently deceased dictator, General Sani Abacha. Shortly after the general's demise last year, his wife was stopped as she tried to leave the country with 35 or so suitcases bulging with foreign currency. According to the report, with Abacha gone and Nigeria searching for money he allegedly stole, his sons urgently began to shift $39 million among various Citi accounts--with no opposition from the bank...