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...N.Y.S.E. like a club, or you won't have the confidence of the public." JOHN REED, interim chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, on the need for reform, following the resignation of former chairman Richard Grasso...
...gifts that no recent U.S. politician can match. But Clinton also succeeded because he knew how to steal his opponents' best ideas, sand off the rough edges and get them enacted. Deficit reduction, free trade, an emphasis on law enforcement (remember Clinton's 100,000 new cops) and welfare reform were traditional Republican ideas and winners all--especially welfare reform, which was an essential component of Clinton's 1996 re-election strategy...
...second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues. But he thinks that opportunity has been wasted out of political cowardice. This government, he writes, is "betraying the reforming mandate given by the voters in April 2002." Malek Boutih, an outspoken Socialist Party official, says the government's mandate wasn't so much for reform as for stopping Le Pen. But that doesn't mean it can afford to spin its wheels. "If this government sits and waits things...
...Russian? Taking a page from the Bush Administration's playbook, the Kremlin has adopted a national-security policy that includes preemptive military strikes. Russia may even revise its nuclear strategy, unless NATO abandons what the Kremlin calls its "anti-Russian orientation." The statements came at a conference on the reform and development of Russia's armed forces, held in Moscow last week and attended by senior state officials, military brass and national media editors. President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov both spoke at the conference. Ivanov said Russia should be ready to carry out preemptive strikes anywhere...
...your government lacks coherence? As in other European countries, the economic situation is difficult. We've just experienced a quarter of negative growth. In France, there's always been an automatic correlation between the popularity of the Prime Minister and the economic situation. We've undertaken a number of reforms that have resulted in a decline in public approval. To me, this seems normal when you're undertaking an important reform program. [The low poll numbers] will continue to the end of the year, but should rise again at the beginning of 2004 with a return of growth and employment...