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...return or a turning point. Top advisers have all but written off the rest of the year as a loss. The aim is to relaunch Bush's presidency in January with a new agenda rolled out in his State of the Union address, now that Social Security reform lies crumpled in a ditch. But to do that, he would need to adapt the style and system that served him well for four years but has now demonstrably failed; add new blood to a team that functions as a palace guard but not as an early-warning system or idea factory...
...year's successes--an energy bill, the highway bill, bankruptcy reform, a free-trade agreement--all came before the Category 5 bad news of the fall. But a well-received court nominee could help Bush turn the corner. He will be traveling to South America and Asia before the holidays, which is why the White House road map to recovery starts in earnest in January. "It is fundamentally a question of reconnecting with the American people," says a senior member of the Bush team. "One of the good things about being President of the United States is that even when...
...minute,” and he totally helped me snag this internship. Tell him you’re sorry and forgive yourself while you’re at it! I’m sure the payoff was more than decent. With sincere interest and hope that we all can reform, The Amateur Ethicist
...fact that I regret. But here are some things I did know about him: he had back problems; he could hardly walk; he was a doctor who served in the Second World War; he was something of a philanderer. He raised my mother and her sister as Reform Jews in Squirrel Hill, sort of like the Boca Raton of Pittsburgh. They belonged to a Jewish country club where they celebrated the holidays. Mom and Dad decided to raise my sister and me as Jews, saddling us with a rich tradition of good jokes and gefilte fish and guilt. Another thing...
...DIED, ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 81, ally in President Mikhail Gorbachev's democratic reform and restructuring of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s; in Moscow. Badly wounded fighting with the Red Army in 1943, Yakovlev joined the Communist Party and rose quickly, serving as acting head of propaganda from 1965 until his increasingly liberal views saw him sidelined as Soviet ambassador to Canada in 1972. Gorbachev met Yakovlev there in 1983 and recalled him as a trusted collaborator, later promoting him to the Politburo. Together the pair set about the reform process described by Yakovlev as "trying to dismantle...