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...Given the serious nature of the charges that Nemazee faces, the Democrats should immediately return any and all of the contributions that they received from this disgraced financier to preserve the integrity of their fundraising efforts in 2010." - Rob Jesmer, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, in an e-mail after Nemazee's arrest...
...their feet and on their chairs, swept up in waves of cheering. I had a unique vantage point, sitting on the steps just below the podium, a spot where Kennedy could glance down and see me at any time. He had a superstitious belief - half playful, half serious - that the teleprompter would break, as it had for the hapless governor who placed JFK's name in nomination at the 1960 convention. If it happened that night, the plan was that Kennedy would look toward me, and I would utter a number to tell him what page of the typed text...
...speech was designed as a worded symphony, rising and rousing the audience then falling to a quieter level and aiming to transfix listeners before the tempo picked up again. It was alternately serious and joyful, and it was movingly personal about the individuals and families in trouble whom Kennedy had met on the campaign trail. As he finished, Kennedy, who avoided mentioning his slain brothers in political speeches, now did, but in a carefully understated way, recalling the "words of Tennyson that my brothers quoted and loved, and that have a special meaning for me: 'I am a part...
...country's economy and the emergence of a more confident, muscular middle-class. Its leaders were in power until a little over five years back, when the party lost the elections then by a thin margin. But those days seem long gone. The humbled BJP is now faced with serious questions over its leadership, seen to be out of sync with a fast-changing India as well as unable to control dissent within its ranks. Since the electoral defeat,there has been a string of high-profile resignations and infighting between party members has dominated headlines in recent weeks...
Bill Clinton's mission to rescue the two journalists held captive by Pyongyang marked the start of the latest North Korean charm offensive, with Kim trying to play the affable host to the serious ex-President of the U.S. It continued when Pyongyang released a South Korean businessman it was also holding as a hostage, and it intensified last weekend, when North Korea sent a delegation of officials - including its chief spymaster, head of intelligence Kim Yang Gon - to the funeral for the late South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The delegation stayed an extra day, requesting and getting...