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...after all, since its inception after World War II, Europe has traditionally picked the IMF's leader (America got to choose the head of the World Bank). And on Monday, following months of lobbying, Schroeder convinced the 14 other European Union member nations to throw their support behind Caio Koch-Weser, a German technocrat who speaks five languages and has worked at the World Bank for a quarter of a century. But the Clinton administration wasted no time slapping down the E.U. choice, asserting that Koch-Weser is a lightweight who lacks the leadership skills to run an organization that...
...plate right now," says TIME Brussels bureau chief James Graff. "There are so many areas where the U.S. looks as though it's trying to assert unilateral power. It doesn't need another one." While Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has asked the E.U. not to take the Koch-Weser rebuke as an attempt to keep Fischer in power, it appears Schroeder will have to resign himself to the fact that the next IMF chief will not be a German. "There's always the chance with a situation like this," notes Graff, "that if they can't decide...
...pooch 8 Lint collector 9 Tread the boards 10 Like Bill Bradley 11 Perpetrate 12 Windsor's prov. 17 Space-bar neighbor 19 Belfry denizen 20 "Hello" or "Goodbye" 21 Send to Siberia 22 Freeh men? 23 Elemental suffix 24 Second Amendment defender: abbr. 26 Org. that sued Koch Industries for $30M for oil spills 27 Time Warner exec Turner 28 "___ longa, vita brevis" 30 Some musical ensembles 32 According to 35 Part of D.J.I.A. 37 Ed McMahon intro opener 38 Al, now 39 Seinfeld network 40 Antidiscrimination agcy. 41 ___ Zapata! (Brando flick) 43 Nobelist Wiesel 44 Jiffies 45 Take...
...until he fought for and won Barry Goldwater's Senate seat in 1986 that McCain began to search for a broader mission. "In the Senate you have greater freedom," recalls former administrative assistant Chris Koch. "It's not that he had a specific agenda of A, B, C. He just wanted to get out of being perceived as just a Navy guy and war hero who is good on national security." And soon enough he had a chance to fight for a cause closer to his constituents' hearts--when he resisted a rise in Medicare premiums. It was his greatest...
...galling. When Keating asked for a favor and McCain resisted, Keating told another Senator that McCain was a wimp. The next time Keating appeared in McCain's office, the Senator took him apart. "I did not serve 5 1/2 years in a POW camp to have my integrity questioned," Koch recalls him saying...