Word: karle
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...reported that presidential adviser Karl Rove said the G.O.P. will make the President's "handling of the war on terrorism the centerpiece" of its plan to win back the Senate and keep the House in November [11 LIVES, THE PRESIDENT, Sept. 9]. This was a paraphrase, not a direct quotation of Rove's remarks. Time regrets the error...
...Fischer, was the big winner at the polls, and of all the leading German politicians, he's the one with the most instinctive feel and affection for the U.S. 'I know the United States very well,' he told time. 'Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx.' Moreover, Schröeder's defeated opponent, conservative Edmund Stoiber, is close to French President Jacques Chirac, and made little secret of his desire to re-establish the old Franco-German partnership on foreign policy, which would help marginalize U.S. ally Tony Blair in Europe. Not that Schr...
...Karl Rove spent last week where he usually does, out of the limelight. But that didn't stop Democrats from seeing Rove everywhere, his invisible hand guiding all that the White House has done to prepare the country for war. For months Democrats have suspected that Rove, President Bush's chief strategist, was manipulating the war on terror to Republicans' political advantage. In August, when Democratic operative Jim Jordan was asked how war might affect the November elections, he replied caustically, "You mean when General Rove calls in the air strikes in October?" And when majority leader Tom Daschle erupted...
...Then there's the President, who likes to keep his exuberant aide in check by tartly reminding him who's boss. Says Ed Gillespie, a G.O.P. strategist who worked with Rove on the Bush campaign: "If Karl said we should invade Iraq to help us in the November elections, he would have found himself sitting on his ass on Pennsylvania Avenue because the President would have thrown him out of the Oval Office...
...their cue from Bush's political guru, are beating the war drums in their speeches and insinuating that their Democratic opponents are soft on defense. But others fear this kind of talk has gone too far and could backfire. "There are some high-level people in the White House, Karl Rove being the main driver, who are using this for politics," says a G.O.P. Senator, whose message to his colleagues is: "Don't be baited. Don't let Rove hook...