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...Although his political achievements are the subject of debate, Jacques Chirac's campaign-musical legacy remains unsurpassed. Composed for his 1981 presidential campaign, "Jacques Chirac - Now!" features choirs, saxophone solos and unashamedly partisan lyrics. Pop-aganda par excellence...
...next few days, legal questions notwithstanding. "The ball is in his court," says independent pollster Bernie Pinsonat. "He probably thinks he can win. The question is, does he want to leave a great job and come down here, make $100,000 a year and spend his life dealing with partisan politics?" Pinsonat says his most recent poll shows Jindal leading Breaux by 30 percentage points. "It doesn't mean [Breaux] can't win," he says. "But he can't come down here and expect a coronation...
...Congress. He said he was willing to allow Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and other key aides to be privately interviewed about the controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Such private interviews do not need to be done under oath. "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants," Bush said. "I proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse." He insisted that "there's no indication... that anybody did anything improper." The response from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy was swift and uncompromising: "Testimony should be on the record and under...
...knighthood, Hong Kong's leftist camp has never fully trusted Tsang as a Beijing loyalist. Indeed, the conventional wisdom is that China's leaders are still feeling him out. But among his own people, that doesn't necessarily hurt Tsang. "They see him as someone who is not a partisan of these groups," says Michael DeGolyer, who heads the Hong Kong Transition Project at Hong Kong Baptist University. "He basically identifies with [Hong Kongers] against these outside forces...
...scope of the divided American society we live in today. But thankfully, what we didn’t see were any hard-fast prescriptions from the writers. Through their comic series, they have consciously opined in a grey area, one that presents thoughtful questions without the inundation of partisan answers...