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...floor cafeteria in Parliament's Centre Block and ordered a cheeseburger, a Coke and a Caesar salad. He loaded the food onto his tray and, as he does most lunchtimes, headed back to his office. As ever, Harper projected the image of a cerebral, shy, slightly standoffish man, a politician who has never seemed quite at home in boisterous Ottawa. Yet there was one thing changed in his routine: next to Harper stood two bulky plainclothes bodyguards. You get them when...
...what kind of change? It's a question that puzzles even Harper's supporters, who watched him transform himself from a crusader for limited government into a family-friendly mainstream politician. That shift was partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never...
...originally came to Harvard thinking she’d become a politician, and also considered working for Teach for America or certain non-profits in Washington, D.C. after graduation...
...question, the more daring he made them, straying into territory that was exclusive to the big boys (like trying to buy a pro baseball team, thus raising the ire of Japan?s powerful media conglomerates, who own some of the richest teams) and politics (running, unsuccessfully, against a machine politician but scoring new points with his young and fervent stockholder fanbase...
...backyard. Unfortunately, pressing social issues still take a backseat to pretentious religious ones in many developing nations. Praveen Grover New Delhi Unique Partnership The article about the alliance be-tween former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush [Dec. 26?Jan. 2] should be required reading for every politician in the country. You agree on some things and you disagree on others, but you work out the differences with dialogue and respect for each other. That is the way things are supposed to be. What an amazing concept! Doug Weaver Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Praise and Blame Joe Klein...