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...could solve this problem." Since December, Davis, renowned as a micromanager, has been working 18-hour days trying to find solutions to what he delicately calls the "energy challenge." His main fear is that he will be forced to raise rates--in effect, charge consumers full price--something no politician wants to do. "I'm not raising rates; forget it," he says. He has been talking "almost every day" to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, to assess how the financial markets might react to various bailout scenarios. "People always say I'm dull and boring. Well, that helps during...
...Most Republicans, Bush first among them, have only the slightest flicker of interest in reform, thanks to some legitimate free-speech problems with a soft-money ban and the iron hands of Lott and chief Senate fund-raiser Mitch McConnell. (He who controls the reelection money controls many a politician, and yes, that was McConnell emceeing Bush's inaugural.) Most Democrats, chief Democratic fund-raiser Bob Torricelli first among them, find that their yen for reform tends to wane as soon as a meaningful bill is in actual danger of passage...
...facts" in the case for states' rights. Indeed, George W. Bush makes a good point when he says it's ridiculous to describe Norton as pro-slavery. But N.A.A.C.P. head Julian Bond also makes a good point when he labels her remarks "wanton insensitivity." Imagine if some politician who advocated building a German-style highway system said "we lost too much" when Hitler was defeated, and brushed off the Holocaust as merely "bad facts...
...only an accomplished politician, but is also someone who understands and has succeeded in affecting and improving public policy," Nagurka said. "He's always been a doer. I have no doubt that it will be not only an enjoyable experience from a student's perspective, but also most educational...
...theSpark.com has done is taken the kind of boring career indicator foisted upon high school students by their guidance counselors and turned it into a revelation loaded with the kind of brutal honesty you only get these days in the locker room or on Conan. Dominant extroverts include The Politician (who is "manipulative" with a "propensity for cheating") and the Performer; submissive introverts include the brooding Mastermind and the rather pathetic Helper Who Finds Lost Children Over the Internet. A personal favorite is the Dreamer (submissive introverted abstract feeler): "reserved and imaginative, most everyone thinks you're a loser." Advice...