Word: statesmen
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...strings. All those men have gone public with cautionary suggestions for the current President, but the former President did not talk to any of them or review their texts before they wrote and broadcast. Since they left the White House, the elder Bush has treated them as senior statesmen with the right and duty to take part in public debates on the big issues. New time, new struggle, new thoughts abound with everybody...
Economists, statesmen and women speak seriously from the steps of Memorial Church before a crowd of students, parents, professors and dignitaries all poised with the reverence due such a momentous tradition...
...ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette Laguiller, a Trotskyite bank clerk on her fifth presidential run. One begins to wonder if Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Helmut Schmidt, James Callaghan and other long-retired statesmen might still be in the running if they had been French. Or whether it is time for a new revolution to bring in a Sixth Republic with a compulsory retirement age for politicians - unless they come up with new ideas...
...TIME: Does it frustrate you to see Sinn Fein doing so well? Durkan:Republican leaders are now clearly basking as statesmen because of the way the peace process has worked. It reminds some of us of Groucho Marx?s line about knowing Doris Day before she was a virgin; it?s hard sometimes for a party that has always stood for nonviolence and was threatened and intimidated by people who are now coming forward in Sinn Fein. We knew we were taking an electoral risk in encouraging Sinn Fein into the political process. But it?s still the best...
...Republican turned independent Senator Jim Jeffords was praised for a party switch that "changed the way business will be done in Washington for years to come. The shift in the balance of power has, fortunately, compelled some politicians, President Bush included, to become statesmen." And speaking of statesmen, Tony Blair had a good turnout, not only for being a good ally, but mostly "for doing a better job speaking than G.W. Bush ever could" while doing...