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Still, though Chávez crowed that his country was back on "the road to socialism," Venezuela isn't quite "dressed all in red" this week. Until the vote, the opposition had held only two governor seats. Of the five it won Sunday, three control some of the nation's largest population centers, including western Zulia state, the heart of Venezuelan oil production and home to the country's second largest city, Maracaibo. Perhaps worse for Chávez, the socialists lost the mayor's seat in the largest city, Caracas, the nation's capital - even after...
...eyes and ears of the Administration and the Federal Reserve on Wall Street, Geithner's army of economists are in constant contact with world markets, moving trillions of dollars of U.S. government funds into and out of the global financial system. That has afforded him a front-row seat when things go bad, and a unique feel for the character and consequences of the crisis...
...want to be chairman under my leadership, don't think this is a country-club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese and talking amongst ourselves. If you don't want to drill down and build coalitions in minority communities, then you have to give that seat to someone who does...
...that is consciously modeled on a very similar conservative document produced at the dawn of the Reagan era. That 1,000-page book written by the Heritage Foundation in 1981, Mandate For Leadership, became the blueprint for the incoming administration of Ronald Reagan. The book was placed on the seat of all the Reagan Cabinet officials at their first meeting, making about 2,000 recommendations for how Reagan should govern. Lee Edwards, a Heritage historian, estimates that about 60% of its ideas were adopted in whole or in part by Reagan. "We are a little flattered by what the Center...
Beantown Bound. Budget travelers between Boston and New York City are already well acquainted with the Fung Wah and Lucky Star "Chinatown" buses. But now there's the LimoLiner - it's not as cheap, but it's a lot more comfy. You'll get a seat aboard a 28-passenger luxury coach, with free Wi-Fi and a steward who offers blankets and pillows. One-way fares for the four-hour ride between the Hilton New York (1335 Avenue of the Americas; 212-586-7000) and the Hilton Boston Back Bay (40 Dalton Street; 617-236-1100) are usually...