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...There were signs last week that some Republicans were getting nervous. Former Senator Alfonse D'Amato called for Bush to replace Cheney on the ticket. "K Street is in a panic," said a prominent Republican, referring to the Republican lawyers and lobbyists who have been quite lucky in recent years massaging their legislation through the system. There were all sorts of rumors, proposals and prayers-that Colin Powell or John McCain would replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon; that Powell, McCain, Rudolph Giuliani or Senate majority leader Bill Frist would replace Cheney. In the TIME poll, 44% of independents...
...close associates - one of them, Platon Lebedev, like Khodorkovsky, is on trial for fraud and other charges. Yukos might in effect be nationalized, with the government holding a controlling stake and the rest spread out among compliant domestic and foreign investors. Yukos' inexorable demise has made the markets nervous, and capital flight has jumped sharply. Destroying Yukos, warns Christof Ruehl, the World Bank's chief economist in Russia, will "undermine Putin's biggest economic accomplishment, the creation of two to three years of stability." Until very recently, such pessimism was a minority view. The government hard-line was seen...
...don’t want to get carried on too long here, probably because I’m too nervous,” Donato said, letting down his guard just long enough to crack a smile. “I think there’s one thing that I wanted to say and that was, very simply, that I think that Harvard hockey is the greatest combination of superior academics and competitive athletics in all of college sports. And that is a tradition that I embrace and hope to carry...
...don’t want to get carried on too long here, probably because I’m too nervous,” Donato said, letting down his guard just long enough to crack a smile. “I think there’s one thing that I wanted to say and that was, very simply, that I think that Harvard hockey is the greatest combination of superior academics and competitive athletics in all of college sports. And that is a tradition that I embrace and hope to carry...
CAIRO, EGYPT—I was delighted to learn, within minutes of landing in Cairo, that Egypt has a sense of humor as loud and unconventional as my own. Humor, more than anything, has been my saving grace in Egypt, even as I navigate its crowded streets in the nervous anonymity of an analphabetic foreigner. My relationship with this country has been, from day one, founded on the fact that I find Egypt funny—and Egypt finds me funny...