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...were to ask the most partisan Democrat for a caricature of a Bush Administration regulator, it would go like this: someone who got rich defending the industry that he now oversees, someone who came into the job promising a "kinder, gentler" agency that offers "respect and cooperation" to those it regulates, someone who has met privately with his old clients while his agency was investigating them, and someone who, just to complete the picture, favors retro three-piece suits...
Help with financial matters came next. Two years ago, Slocum found out his mother had been swindled by a door-to-door contractor: "I said, 'You paid $4,700 for that yard work?' She started crying." Slocum adopted a gentler tone and persuaded her to let him read all future contracts first. Throughout, her family has respected her independence, she says. She lets Slocum review her checking account, but not without some discomfort. They are worried about her fixed income, and she wants to buy birthday presents for her grandchildren and great-grands. "I half-listen," she says...
...regret for making "mistakes"--all are part of an effort by Dostum, a onetime soldier of fortune whose name is a byword for a decade of warlord power, to resell himself to his compatriots and the world as a democratic politician and servant of the people in a kinder, gentler Afghanistan. Whether he and other warlords succeed in this improbable transformation is even more important to Afghanistan's future stability than is the fate of al-Qaeda remnants hiding out in the Pakistani borderlands. While the Bush Administration continues to make chasing America's enemies its first and, critics charge...
...just sat down and decided it at the table. It doesn't mean they might not start bringing back the bombs too." Italy got a disturbing reminder last week that violence is still a key Mafia tool and the female factor doesn't necessarily add up to a kinder, gentler organization. In a small town near Naples, a 30-year feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats at the local Lauro di Nola beauty parlor last Sunday, several female...
...regret for making "mistakes"--all are part of an effort by Dostum, a onetime soldier of fortune whose name is a byword for a decade of warlord power, to resell himself to his compatriots and the world as a democratic politician and servant of the people in a kinder, gentler Afghanistan. Whether he and other warlords succeed in this improbable transformation is even more important to Afghanistan's future stability than is the fate of al-Qaeda remnants hiding out in the Pakistani borderlands. While the Bush Administration continues to make chasing America's enemies its first and, critics charge...