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PLEADED GUILTY. Bernard Kerik, 50, ex--New York City police commissioner, whose quick responses in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led President Bush to nominate him to be head of the Homeland Security Department before a variety of ethics questions forced Kerik to withdraw his name; to charges that...
After the DelugeNovember 11, 1980The analytical vultures of both print and screen have already picked the bones of the 1980 Reagan victory clean, telling us it’s a watershed in politics, it shows the nation’s anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness...
I nominate Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is an economist who has committed himself to the concept of economic development as a method of reducing poverty-related disease. His latest initiative, Breaking the Bottlenecks, aims to cut through the red tape that slows the...
They may get their wish. Gyanendra's indifferent attitude toward the threats to his rule--H.M. KING GYANENDRA DOES NOT SEEK CHEAP POPULARITY, proclaims a billboard near the U.S. embassy--has fueled public anger even more. The King finally tried to mollify the masses last Friday, when he pledged to...
The next evening, the King seemed to partly agree. In a brief televised address to the nation, Gyanendra offered to return "executive power of the kingdom of Nepal ... to the people," and asked the seven main political parties to nominate a Prime Minister, a position that he had suspended. But...