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...indicative of how very badly President Bush needs a victory - any victory - that he plans to make a rare trip to Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon to attend a weekly Republican luncheon. There, he will make a personal appeal to senators on behalf of his bipartisan immigration reform bill, the progress of which came to a sudden and surprising halt late Thursday night after a failed attempt to bring the legislation to a vote. While Bush has previously leaned on Vice President Cheney to make these kinds of congressional entreaties (the President last sat in on a Senate policy lunch...
...main rival from Wallonia is Didier Reynders, the head of the liberal Reform Movement (MR), a 48-year-old energetic business-oriented conservative who hopes to catch some of the bounce from Nicolas Sarkozy's recent victory in France. Reynders, who is also Finance Minister, was even in Paris on May 6 to celebrate Sarkozy's triumph...
...gloves-off campaigning style of the conservatives seems to be working. Leading Socialist candidates are already talking more about how they'll regroup and reform their party in opposition than about the possibility of victory. And the shrill tone of the UMP campaigning also appears designed to counter any tendency to not bother to vote this time among Sarkozy supporters lulled by his commanding victory in the Presidential race. Although projections indicate France won't equal the stunning 84% participation rate in the Presidential poll, abstention should drop below the 30% barrier for the first time in a legislative election...
...Andrei Shleifer ’82, the economist accused of making investments in Russia in the early 1990s while simultaneously advising its government on economic reform, returned to Harvard to teach a popular undergraduate course...
...need for action is one thing that unites all the Presidential candidates. And the coalition for immigration reform is strong enough - and wide enough - to take principled stands. The President, much of the Democratic Party, and a clutch of G.O.P. lawmakers all support legalization. It's not too much to hope that together they could make a frank and forceful argument for amnesty and win over a conflicted nation...