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Front Runners Lacking Luster Joe Klein could not have been more wrong in stating "Most voters don't care if Hillary Clinton says 'I was wrong' about Iraq" [March 5]. After six years of Bush's refusal to admit having made a mistake, all voters, not just Democrats, understand that such a refusal is clear evidence of a lack of integrity. We the people will not elect another person who lacks the integrity to admit a mistake...
...President of Iraq. Barzani is a powerful political leader in Iraq's relatively stable north. And Welch is one of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top deputies, tasked with jump-starting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which the Bush Administration hopes can add some much needed luster to its foreign policy legacy...
...years, including Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe. James Bond creator Ian Fleming discovered the delights of a martini, shaken not stirred, at the bar, while the joint was mentioned in the Hollywood classic The Great Escape as a dream destination after the war. It had lost its luster by the time it was acquired in 2005 by Caprice Holdings?owners of Le Caprice, the Ivy and J. Sheekey?and then closed for a multimillion-dollar renovation...
...famed musical director, who has cast her as lead soprano in its 2008 production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha. Last May, Durkin sang alongside such luminaries as Karita Mattila, Pl?cido Domingo and Natalie Dessay as the company farewelled outgoing general manager Joseph Volpe, and already some of their luster is rubbing off. But for someone who only seven years ago was helping put up the sets for Opera Australia's touring school production of The Magic Flute, she's far from a pouting diva. While "playing up and climbing the ladder," is all part of the opera business, she says...
...faith in the President is perhaps the most significant?as well as disturbing?result of the current White House crisis. Over the past two decades Viet Nam and Watergate seriously diminished the presidency. For many Americans, Ronald Reagan, with his can-do optimism, returned some of the old luster to the office. Much of that has faded in the past month. "One of the hallmarks of the Reagan presidency has been his ability to restore the public's confidence in the White House as an institution and in Government's ability to perform," says a Republican political adviser. "That confidence...