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George Bush told reporters last week that a "fiscal straitjacket" is good for government. Maybe he should ask Mike Easley how it feels. Easley became Governor of North Carolina in January, dreaming of smaller class sizes and a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. These weren't wild fantasies; his predecessor, fellow Democrat Jim Hunt, doled out plums for eight years while the economy boomed--a pre-kindergarten program for low-income kids, big pay raises for teachers, $1.5 billion in tax cuts...
...motions to be debated at the hearing is whether Summers can continue to be held liable as a private citizen. Current Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill automatically replaces his predecessor when charges are leveled against Summers in his official capacity, but the Plaintiff in this suit maintains that he is suing Summers as an individual...
...Outside of Japan, Thailand has had perhaps the most disappointing succession of Prime Ministers of any major Asian nation. Since 1991 there have been eight other Prime Ministers, all of whom, at their best, conveyed an image of dull impropriety. (Quick, who was Prime Minister before Thaksin's predecessor Chuan Leekpai? Didn't think you remembered.) Thaksin, on the other hand, has managed to associate himself with wealth, with economic growth, with mobile phones and the Internet. And by now, even remote Thai villages that don't yet have Internet access know it is something they should want...
...potentially explosive political ramifications of such a choice were not lost on Bush?s predecessor. Late in his term, faced with the stem cell conundrum, President Clinton managed to make a decision without actually deciding anything. He declared that federal funding would be provided for research, as long as that funding did not go towards actually extricating the stem cells from the embryos. That left researchers scrambling to find private firms willing to provide cells for federally funded projects...
...Latin America: B President Bush gets a B for simply having a Latin America policy, unlike his predecessor, and his efforts to upgrade the relationship with Mexico are to be applauded. But elsewhere, his nomination of veterans of Reagan's contra wars to top positions is unlikely to be well-received, and the floundering drug war - as well as mounting confrontations between U.S.-backed government forces and leftist rebels in Colombia - may soon be demanding urgent attention...