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Jeffords is an unprincipled political opportunist who took the easy way out. The self-sacrificing, heroic thing would have been to stick out the battle within his own camp and quietly use his talents and creativity to reform his colleagues and alter the direction of the party as a member of which he was elected. WALLACE L. MCKEEHAN Bellaire, Texas
...Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who plays foil to House Government Reform Committee Chairman and Clinton Administration Inquisitor Dan Burton, R- Ind., has asked Burton several times if he'll spearhead an investigation into alleged Republican wrongdoing - specifically, the situation of senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, who met March 12 with Intel's chief executive and two of its lobbyists even as he still held more than $100,000 in company stock. Rove has denied any impropriety, with White House officials saying that the conversation was about how the company could support the president's policies, not about a pending...
...providing national health care; no one got hurt. If the pre-Jeffords White House ignored McCain, the new McStrategy seems cribbed from Death of a Salesman: Attention must be paid. Deputy chief of staff Josh Bolten scuttled over to McCain's Senate office last week to talk about HMO reform, with Health Secretary Tommy Thompson in tow. This week Budget Director Mitch Daniels will woo McCain on defense spending. "A lot of White House officials are going to reach out," said a senior Administration official. At least for now, relations seem to have been smoothed, and talk of McCain...
...comparison with the shifting situation in the Pacific, Europe's security raises second-order questions. Not that they aren't tricky. Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform and one of Europe's leading defense analysts, identifies three issues on which the Americans and Europeans need to find common ground: development of the European Union's defense capability in a way that enhances its ability to mount peacekeeping operations without undermining NATO, missile defense and the possible enlargement of NATO to include the Baltic states. Grant, a supporter of a European defense capability, describes Washington's attitude...
...wake of other high-profile layoffs in France - notably Marks and Spencer's pullout, eliminating 1,700 jobs, and Danone's shedding of 570 jobs - the AOM debacle casts an unflattering spotlight on Seillière at a critical moment. It cannot help weakening his sputtering efforts to reform the country's social schemes. And before the AOM saga is over, the baron may find that he has lost something far more valuable than a $40 million investment: his reputation as a phenomenally successful entrepreneur. Lady Luck can be a fickle partner indeed...