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...after all a man who, when tapped to lead the Vice Presidential search committee, effectively chose himself before interviewing anyone else. And while Gellman's book feels more like a collection of set-pieces than a cohesive whole, this look at this second most powerful office in the land couldn't be timelier given the current debate about vice presidential qualifications...
...Darkness had descended on this land," Gates said. "Merchants of chaos were gaining strength. Death was commonplace. Slowly but inexorably, the tide began to turn. Our enemies took a fearsome beating they will not soon forget...
...question remains whether, as Lehman begins the forced selling of its more troubled assets, that will drive prices for some real estate securities down so far that other firms land in trouble as well. Merrill Lynch North American economist David Rosenberg predicts that Lehman's demise will begin a long, painful process of unraveling trillions of dollars in derivatives "to identify how big the potential losses are and where they are being held...
...into something worse. There’s really no way of knowing. The point is that the power dynamic is such in the modern day that our hypothetical driver, the classical Ubermensch, has lost all his purchase in these misguided States. Let us not forget that ours is the land that once acquitted Aaron Burr, a former vice president and notable murderer, of his active conspiracy against the United States and his plan to become the ‘Emperor of Mexico.’ Surely the same nation must tolerate a little overzealous acceleration? Even if not, shouldn?...
...demands of the elite have gelled into "autonomy," meaning greater regional control over everything from land ownership to police to gas revenue royalties. The four departments, or states, of Tarija, Beni, Pando and Santa Cruz held non-legally sanctioned referendums earlier this year, approving their own autonomy statutes. Though these statutes have not yet been implemented, they have led the opposition to reject the newly written constitution, which is key to Morales' efforts to redress what his supporters see as centuries of domination over indigenous Bolivians...