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...lose. Inside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Chávez--who had yet to lose an election since winning the presidency in 1998--was initially furious. But soon enough, he accepted the loss. And his calm concession did Venezuela--in fact, a whole continent whose leaders have had a habit of defying the will of the public--a service...
...time in many years, the GOP has no real front runner. The party has yet to rally around Romney, despite his deep pockets and strong organization. Giuliani is out of step with religious conservatives and dogged by indicted friends, estranged children, reputed lovers and former wives. McCain has a habit of chastising his allies, and Fred Thompson has dropped like a lawn full of leaves...
Boris, a scholarship boy and avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, is academically gifted. But his reports there worried that he might squander his huge potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable U.K. political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary...
...President is an intellectual dissident with a lifelong habit of fighting against the majority view. That drove him to persuade the ANC to talk to apartheid's rulers, not just fight them. And it led him to steer the ANC away from its Marxist faith and toward the free market. But that same contrarian instinct is also behind the positions for which he has been most harshly criticized: his refusal to condemn Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and his skepticism, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, that hiv is the principal cause of aids. Granted, his behind-the-scenes diplomacy...
Most Americans have never seen a politician like Paul--humble and unassuming, wise and unwavering. He is not a flip-flopper, and he votes on principle. Watch this guy. He's going to be our next President if folks can get out of the habit of voting for the lesser of two evils and vote for real change...