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...McCain is suffering the consequences of holding himself up as a different kind of politician," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "While there was nothing improper about the letter on the face of it, and McCain has repeatedly warned that soft money corrupts 'us all,' his populist appeal makes him much more vulnerable to anything that looks like politics as usual." With McCain bleeding from a self-inflicted wound, Bush simply had to dance around and jab for a clear points victory, graciously avoiding mention of McCain's FCC troubles. "The golden rule of politics is that when your opponent...
...many ways the turning point in his presidency. As rebels moved across Moscow, meeting little resistance, close aides went to his office to ask for instructions. They found Yeltsin sitting in a darkened room, seemingly paralyzed by depression or despair. After the parliament's revolt was crushed, Boris the populist disappeared. The man who had once expressed near physical revulsion at the luxury (very modest, by current standards) of Soviet leaders now lived in a series of opulent residences in and around Moscow. He became withdrawn, a tendency reinforced by his declining health, alcohol abuse and dependency on a small...
...failed to do what he had set out to achieve, many years ago, when he was an ambitious young populist. He brought neither predictability nor prosperity to his country. It was perhaps this he had in mind on New Year's Eve when, after apologizing for his failures, he told Russians in a plaintive farewell: "Be happy. You deserve happiness...
That is largely why Venezuelans last year elected the populist, corruption-busting Chavez. A former army paratrooper colonel, he led a bloody but failed coup attempt in 1992 that was widely applauded by citizens fed up with cogollo rule. Many citizens complained that Chavez's government was initially slow to respond to the disaster. They conceded, however, that he was doing more than his effete predecessors would probably have done--dispatching troops to set up relocation camps and touring the devastated areas in his trademark red beret. On Dec. 15, the day the flooding began, voters approved his new federal...
...causes of the country's high flood-death toll, but they may not like his solutions. Chavez blamed the "criminal irresponsibility" of previous governments for the estimated 50,000 deaths from last week's floods, citing the widespread construction of illegal shantytowns on hillsides. The left-leaning populist president warned that there would be no rebuilding of some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, and that people would be forbidden from building in areas vulnerable to mudslides. And while the former paratrooper has earned top marks for his hands-on supervision of relief efforts, his approach to rebuilding the country...