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...china shop. They appreciate him as their protector and retriever." Like many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, DeLay suffers under what officials call this Administration's general lack of respect for Congress. But he is also in the unique position of being the most prominent modern Republican politician in Texas to rise without the help of White House senior adviser Karl Rove, and the two have never been close. "Karl thinks of him as someone a little bit too opinionated for his own good," says an official close to both men. "And DeLay thinks of Karl as a former...
...match for the Chinese giant. China is getting stronger and stronger and will soon move on to conquer the next country or continent. China wins with a simple, convenient formula: a communist social structure, a capitalist economy, small concern for trade rules and a furious rush. As an Italian politician said, If China had our union leaders, it would not survive for long. Franco G. Sclano Rome Exit Strategy No matter what happens in Iraq, it won't end the war on terrorism [Dec. 5]. We must stay the course in the 21st century, or there will be no 22nd...
...only one of the four with even less credibility than Allawi is Chalabi. While claiming to be a secular politician, he went into last January's election as a member of the Shi'ite coalition, as an ally of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. This time around, he contested the election on his own-and appears to have failed to win a single seat outright. The elections proved what most journalists have suspected all along: that Chalabi is one of Iraq's most despised political figures. Only in the surreal world of Iraqi politics would such a man even...
...There was no relief for the nervous citizens of the city. On the night of December 29, a letter faxed to media outlets in Bangalore claimed that a five-star hotel would be hit by bombs on New Year's eve, and the house of a major state politician would be attacked by suicide bombers. On December 30, the city had to endure five hoax bomb-threats, including one that was made to an IBM office...
...That confidence in his own judgment has made Koizumi a different kind of Japanese politician. With an unparalleled combination of charisma, media savvy, and the right message for an edgy population concerned about Japan's diminishing stature in the world, he has driven the political debate into uncharted territory. Something?or somebody?bold was needed to lift the Japanese economy out of its lost decade and recapture the spark that had once lit the most sustained economic miracle the modern world has seen. But Koizumi's legacy now hangs in the balance. If the same self-confidence, the same belief...