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People skip over names. But names have lots of meaning. I had troubles in the beginning. People were saying, "You're going to name a black character Leonid? How can you do that?" And I'd say, "Why not? Does it make any more sense to call him John? I mean, if black people came from Africa, I should give my characters African names, you know?" But as a writer, as a novelist, names help to identify a character, and place a character in the world...
...Republican stonewall had its roots in a memo that William Kristol wrote in 1993, urging Republicans not to cooperate in any way with Bill Clinton on health care because, among other things, the plan represented "a serious political threat to the Republican Party." In other words, it would make Clinton and the Democrats more popular. Kristol's strategy succeeded in 1994, when Republicans won control of the House and Senate - but it failed in 2010, although Republicans, misled by momentary anti-reform polls that mostly reflect public confusion, seem intent on pushing "repeal." It remains likely that Democrats will lose...
...their country's nuclear program). And despite President Obama keeping the proverbial "all options" on the table, the U.S. military leadership is opposed to trying to resolve the nuclear standoff by force: Bombing Iran's facilities would likely only set back its nuclear program by a few years (and make weaponization more likely), goes the reasoning, at a cost of a possibly starting a calamitous regional...
...does the Obama Administration make good on its promise to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons? One of Clinton's predecessors, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, has some unsolicited advice: "I don't see a set of sanctions coming along that would be so detrimental to the Iranians that they are going to stop [their nuclear] program," Powell said in an interview with Bloomberg TV to be broadcast next weekend. "So ultimately, the solution has to be a negotiated...
...Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, has urged Merkel to agree on a package of "coordinated bilateral loans" for Greece - or risk harming the euro. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have also dismissed the IMF option, saying it would make the E.U. look incapable of resolving its own crises. (Sarkozy has his own reasons for keeping the IMF at bay: its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is a potential rival in France's 2012 presidential election.) Others, like French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, have criticized Germany for making impossible demands on Athens...