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Still, with his political survival at stake, Sharon has shown flashes of the combativeness that propelled him to past political victories. At a closed meeting of the Knesset foreign-affairs and defense committee last week, Sharon brushed off an opposition politician, Yossi Sarid, who grilled him about whether he could function as Prime Minister while he was under investigation for corruption...
...certainly not in Cambridge. And let’s not forget politics. After Watergate, Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Clinton-Lewinsky and dozens of other episodes of the now-syndicated television show called “The Political Letdown,” why would anyone ever put faith in a politician? Because we have no other choice, we have to believe that the system works, if only for our own peace of mind...
...threat is posed by Megawati's former security chief, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democrat Party, who rivals his former boss in opinion polls. Even so, Megawati remains the candidate to beat in July, thanks to her pedigree as daughter of Indonesia's founding President Sukarno. No other Indonesian politician has the same national recognition as the woman referred to by many as "Mother Mega...
Clarke, who quit his job at the National Security Council a year ago, would not have survived Washington's brutal ways in the service of three Presidents if he had not been a good politician. And last week he needed all the political skills he could muster for what he was about to do--direct a missile at the very fortress that so far has protected Bush's presidential advantage in this campaign season: the perception that, for all his faults, Bush has done everything he could to keep the country safe and managed the war on terrorism well...
...that Alex Rodriguez doesn't want to become a politician. Because he's got it down. He memorizes personal details about everyone he meets. He keeps his wife Cynthia by his side. He laughs just a little too hard at his new teammates' jokes and holds his hand on their backs just a second too long at spring training--not because he doesn't know it will seem as if he's trying too hard but precisely because he wants it to. He speaks with the calm, earnest seriousness of a man who is 50 instead of 28. He slips...