Word: protractedness
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Some of Bush's friends were mystified by his remark last week and concluded that it must be a phrase he picked up in a briefing. "It's pollster talk," said one person who speaks often to the President. A senior Administration official said the President was simply saying he...
Still, the negative images linger, and the city is facing a difficult and protracted recovery. More than half the population is still in exile, and huge swaths of New Orleans remain largely abandoned while residents wait for rebuilding money to arrive. Citywide some 60% of local businesses have most likely...
The candidates' chest-thumping could portend a protracted legal battle - like the one north of the border in 2000 - or even more disruptive political unrest once officials do report a winner. But the electoral crisis also drives home the deep conflict over? Mexico's economic future, which had been the...
BUT DID HE GET A GOLD WATCH? Surely CBS didn't expect Gunga Dan to sit in his office playing online poker. When DAN RATHER stepped down as anchor of the CBS Evening News last year after apologizing for flawed reporting in a story about President Bush's National Guard...
Warner, a former Marine and an ex-Navy Secretary, put Rumsfeld on notice that he expects the incident to "be addressed expeditiously" and that the Pentagon not drag its feet in airing the facts in the case as it did in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. "Congress and the...