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...lose its luster. At home, even some officials are questioning the realism of the Kremlin's plans to double gdp by 2010. Runs on two banks last week - unrelated to the Yukos affair but worrisome nonetheless - have focused attention on the Putin administration's failure to push through structural reform. Still, adds the World Bank's Ruehl, "foreign portfolio managers have a short memory." If things calm down after the Yukos endgame, investors may dismiss Yukos as an unfortunate one-off - unless or until the bailiffs turn up at another corporate headquarters...
...Over 20 years of sentencing reform are all but lost, and tens of thousands of criminal judgments are in jeopardy." SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, in a dissent to the court's 5-4 ruling that judges may not increase a convict's sentence based on facts not already established by a jury. The ruling casts doubt on the constitutionality of 20-year-old federal sentencing guidelines...
...making it work. I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack. I think if you have a pluralistic, secure, stable Iraq, the people of Iraq will be better off, and it might help the process of internal reform in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. I think right now, getting rid of Saddam's tyranny, ironically, has made Iraq more vulnerable to terrorism coming in from the outside. But any open society is going to be more vulnerable than any tyranny to that...
...think that the whole American system was set up to force people to compromise. So I don't think it's a bad thing. But there are some things that aren't acceptable. That's why I try to go through in some detail in the welfare-reform section why I vetoed the two bills I vetoed, why I signed the bill I signed...
...should have done welfare reform before health care. As soon as I realized [Senate majority leader] Bob Dole wasn't going to do anything on health care, I should have told the American people the truth, abandoned it, and said we're going to do this after the '94 election, we've got to have a bipartisan solution. I hope that in my account here I have persuaded people that the blame for those two big decisions rests entirely with me, because I always thought Hillary and Ira Magaziner got a totally bum rap on this. Those were...