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...also represents something of a palace coup. The Gang's return is the latest and by far the strongest indication that the star of Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes is eclipsing that of his nominal boss, Leon Panetta. One of Panetta's first acts last summer was to all but roust the consultants from the West Wing. He barred them from appearing on TV or in the Oval Office without his permission, and he conducted a none-too-private search for people to replace them. But Ickes had different ideas. In recent weeks he and his protege, newly appointed...
...southern state of Chiapas? Does the governing party's electoral defeat in Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara, and in the state of Jalisco portend a loss of political control or a heartening turn toward genuine democracy--or maybe both? Most important, does Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, less than three months into his six-year term, have a consistent strategy for dealing with political and financial crises, or is he just grasping at straws...
...LEON PANETTA Wasn't the President's chief of staff going to put an end to nomination bungling...
...words between the government of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and Chiapas rebels ended last week, and real warfare resumed. In Nuevo Momon, a village in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, sniper fire rained down on a force of Mexican soldiers, killing two of them. Near the town of Cacalomacan, about 50 miles west of Mexico City, 250 police and soldiers surrounded a group of militants and flushed them out of a farmhouse after a two-hour gun battle. In other strongholds of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or E.Z.L.N., hundreds of heavily armed soldiers...
...Bell Curve is indeed controversial and is has the frightening potential to become a Bible for any number of political factions. It is therefore an important, if sadly misguided, work. Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, the moderator, rightly argued that debates about the intersection between race and social policy have a place at Harvard. It would be a shame to prevent these from occuring in the future...