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...David L. Asher, a senior adviser to the U.S. State Department on issues involving North Korea, says the Bush Administration is hoping that hitting Kim financially will force him to embrace reform and trade his nuclear-weapons program for economic aid. On a rare visit to China in January, Kim spent hours inspecting malls and factories, suggesting that he may be contemplating the type of reforms that have transformed China into an economic powerhouse. "I very much doubt he would have done that unless he'd felt under pressure," says Asher. "Maybe he's realized the old game...
...Presidential advisers have told TIME that Bush will describe the world as full of change in the economy, demographics and technology-and he?ll tout his ideas as ways of giving Americans tools to deal with this tumult. He?ll repackage several longstanding ideas-like tort reform and making permanent the tax cuts that are due to expire in the coming years-as essential to the American economy. He?ll also tout health care reform-especially the idea, endorsed by politicians from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Newt Gingrich, to use technology to lower health care costs-but avoid getting mired...
...transform himself from a crusader for limited government into a family-friendly mainstream politician. That shift was partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never will be a Red Tory--but his stolid textbook campaign managed to attract a diverse group...
...high time that Congress be held accountable to the laws it is sworn to protect. American voters must demand meaningful campaign-finance reform. Elected officials found guilty of accepting bribes belong in jail like all other crooks. They should forfeit their costly, publicly paid pensions. JOHN HOBBS Mount Arlington...
...Beijing square, but google com gave up scenes of the 1989 massacre. KUDLOW'S MONEY POLITICS spanked Google for "repressing free speech" abroad while protecting "kiddy porn" at home. But THE REACTION was hopeful: "Google could be the thin end of ... a wedge that ultimately leads to political reform...