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...absorb some lessons from recent history. Insiders say he has telephoned former Prime Minister Mulroney--whose government he once accused of "running the largest deficits in Canadian history"--for advice on the pitfalls of power. One model he surely hopes to avoid: the short-lived minority government of Joe Clark, who entered power with as little experience as Harper's Tories and spent months largely out of sight of the Canadian public while learning the tricks of governance--only to be turfed out by the resurgent Liberals under Pierre Trudeau...
...reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden, are allowing speculation to float about their prospective candidacies. Still others are lurking on the sidelines, including former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, who, as a political novice, won a hard-fought race in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, and former Tory Belinda Stronach...
Cheating? Sure. But viewers want suspense. The problem is that makers of reality TV have the power to imply or outright fabricate things about real people who have to carry their fake reputations into their real lives. Sarah Kozer, a contestant on the Fox dating show Joe Millionaire, says producers doctored a scene in which she went for a walk behind some trees with the show's bachelor, Evan Marriott, to make it seem as if they had oral sex. The producers added sound effects and captions, she says, and dubbed in a line--"It's better...
Columnist Joe Klein argued that the Democrats are on the wrong side of the debate over the Bush Administration's eavesdropping on citizens without a court order [Jan. 16], but he misrepresents the situation. No one objects to wiretapping to prevent terrorism. It is the unchecked power to order surveillance that is worrisome. When the President can decide without oversight who the enemy is, there is nothing to prevent his spying on anyone he chooses. There is simply no way to tell if presidential power is being abused. Klein touts the successes of the spying program and laments that...
...With reporting by Joe Szczesny...