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...Obama's background resonates because it proves his points. Like other young African-American politicians, from Congressmen Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee to Artur Davis of Alabama, Obama doesn't sound like a civil-rights-era black politician. His style is, as he puts it, "not accusing but challenging Americans to live up to the highest ideals." Some call that pandering to whites. But it can appeal to blacks too. "When he talks, you don't think about his color," says Eric Robinson, an African-American barber from Decatur, Ill., at an Obama rally in October...
...supported the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, which the group opposed but President Bush backed. He also crusaded against RU 486, the so-called abortion pill, and supported replacing the federal income tax with a flat tax or national sales tax. And even if Vitter was not the favorite politician of Pelican State Republicans, they saw a chance to win Democrat John Breaux's old Senate seat and rallied to his support...
...When maverick politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated in 2002, the Dutch were relieved that his murderer turned out to be a radical white vegan from the small town of Harderwijk. Like Van Gogh, Fortuyn was critical of Islam - he called it a "backward culture" and demanded that immigrants assimilate into Dutch society - and many people feared his killing was the first salvo in the country's own culture war. But that battle may have finally begun with Van Gogh's murder, allegedly carried out by a Dutch-Moroccan, 26, who is being referred to in the media as Mohammed...
Like practically any self-respecting politician, most CEOs are rarely willing to admit they have made a mistake. Better to blame something outside their control--the economy, changing tastes, even the weather--than take responsibility for a bad earnings report or missed sales forecast. But the truth is that corporate America has more than its fair share of management failures, setting aside cases of fraud or accounting shenanigans. In fact, despite the unique circumstances in different industries, companies tend to stumble for the same insidious reasons--reasons that often flow from the egoistic pursuit of scale or an unwillingness...
...dropping Pakistan's insistence that a referendum be held among Kashmiris to choose whether they want the territory to belong to India or Pakistan. But President Bush will also have to decide whether to push Musharraf into establishing a timetable for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan. As opposition politician Chaudhry Nisar told TIME: "Why are the Americans boasting about bringing democracy to Afghanistan when nothing is being done in Pakistan?" By relying too heavily on Musharraf?and overlooking his authoritarian impulses?the U.S. has disillusioned many Pakistanis. With moderate political groups in Pakistan neutered, many of those dissatisfied with...