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...duty of the President of Sicily to meet with all Sicilians," he told Time. "Over the years, I've probably met 50% of the citizens of this region, personally - and half of those I've kissed!" But according to Sicilian prosecutors, not all of the jovial pol's human contacts have been so innocent. The former radiologist is on trial for charges of allegedly aiding the Mafia. Investigators say the regional President tipped off an acquaintance that his conversations were being bugged by police in an ongoing probe into the network providing insider tips to Cosa Nostra's boss...
...will be a bittersweet exit for a proud Massachusetts pol who started serving the Bush family in 1979, when he would pick up the President's father at Boston's Logan Airport in a red Chevette with rusty floorboards and drive the elder Bush, in his first bid for the Republican presidential nomination, to campaign stops throughout New Hampshire. Card, now 58, went on to become George H.W. Bush's last Secretary of Transportation, and remains "Secretary Card...
...Olmert, who was catapulted into the Kadima leadership after Sharon?s terminal illness, has a reputation as a tough, often acerbic backroom pol. Even so, he will need plenty more prayers to weave together a smooth-running government - not to mention working out peace with the radical Palestinians of Hamas...
...which includes the Middle East. Seven Seas has also provided food supplies to U.S. troops in Iraq. Another Dubai-based firm, MAC International, is under contract to deliver $67.2 million worth of police trucks to the Army. Those vehicles, however, will bear a stamp that should please any Washington pol: Made In Detroit. -With reporting by Sally B. Donnelly/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...competing for the most enduring stakes of all, putting aside their near-term goals to ensure the long-term success of their line. Robin Parker, 46, a campaign organizer who in 1980 was already on the presidential stump with Senator Edward Kennedy, was precisely the kind of lifetime pol who one day finds herself in the West Wing. But in 1992, at the very moment a President of her party was returning to the White House and she might have snagged a plum Washington job, she decamped from the capital, moved to Boston with her family and became a full...