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...then came Joe Biden. On Wednesday, announcing his run for President, he praised his Senate colleague and presidential rival Barack Obama as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," and declared that this was a first for African American presidential candidates. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004, informed Biden, who called to apologize, that he takes a bath every day. Sharpton is good at moments like this. He manages to declare himself available for compensatory pandering, without pretending that he doesn't get the joke. But generally, the first thing that happens when...
Rice's chances for success aren't great. Olmert's job-approval ratings are even more dismal than Bush's, and Abbas is struggling to prevent clashes among rival factions from escalating into civil war. And then there's the trouble with Rice herself. She did herself few favors in Arab eyes by failing to restrain Israel's bombing campaign against Lebanon last summer. Her refusal to negotiate with Syria baffles diplomats in the region, who believe the U.S. is missing an opportunity to peel Damascus away from its alliance with Iran. And Rice's relationship with Abbas, in particular...
...least some of the doubts trace back to Rice herself. At 52, she is no longer the ascending star she was at the start of the Bush presidency. Rice's influence with Bush is considerable, thanks to their personal bond and the departure of her rival, Donald Rumsfeld; but few believe she will ever usurp Vice President Dick Cheney's policymaking supremacy. Her associates say she is serious about retreating from public life at the end of Bush's term. For someone so devoted to regimen--up at 4:45 a.m. when she is in Washington, she works out, eats...
...four or five years ago now, and I put big screens everywhere. The idea is that after we go on a trip, when we come home, those photos are already there. For a kid born five years from now, the kind of memories that will easily be recorded will rival the most organized mother who labeled everything in file boxes...
That will be a tricky prospect, considering the lse has seen off a succession of foreign takeover attempts in the past few years. Under ceo Clara Furse - the bourse's first female boss in its 200-year history - the lse has knocked back offers from rival European operators like Deutsche Börse and Australian investment bank Macquarie. By "flushing out suitors and garnering shareholder support," says Richard Hunter, London-based head of U.K. equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, Furse and the management "have played the bid game very well indeed." But the laws of capitalism dictate that...