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...using improper influence to obtain a British passport for the wealthy Indian businessman Srichand Hinduja. Yet Mandelson's pro-European views are long-established and sincere, according to people who know him well. Denis MacShane, recently sacked as Britain's Europe Minister, says: "Peter is a staunch, convinced European. He wants a successful Europe; he wants a social model, but one that delivers jobs, not unemployment." MacShane adds: "He can play a very big role but it will have to be based on winning friends as much as making headlines." That's not always his style. But if Mandelson...
...will this affect market regulation? The President has picked Representative Christopher Cox of California, a former corporate lawyer and staunch supporter of business interests, to replace Donaldson. Cox will come under pressure from the business lobby to dilute a measure in Sarbanes-Oxley that requires that firms institute strong internal financial controls and have auditors assess their adequacy. "It has turned into a boondoggle for the accounting industry," contends John Berlau, a fellow at the pro-business Competitive Enterprise Institute, who cites an American Electronics Association study that put the cumulative costs of complying in the first year alone...
...year-old water system are holding back development. Bradford's patrol cars have 35-year-old radars, and Chambliss came home from Iraq to find a mere $820 in the department kitty for new purchases. "I'm not going to talk down the war," says the police chief, a staunch Republican, "but I don't understand why we're spending all this money there when we're having trouble here." His idea is to raise $10,000 for new police equipment by holding a tractor pull. The last one drew spectators from seven states...
...Staunch Soldiers "Under the Gun" [may 9], on the severe problems of the Philippine military, was timely. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (A.F.P.) need a miracle to overcome the problems you described?"corruption, bad housing, woeful medical care"?but I do not agree that the A.F.P. has a morale problem. Poor equipment, yes, but not low morale. I was in the A.F.P. for 30 years, and I know that the Filipino soldier is highly motivated and fights without grumbling, even if he is short of equipment. Sad to say, the revolving-door policy of the President in appointing...
Over the past weeks, Jewish students and alumni of Princeton have voiced concern over Khalidi’s potential appointment to university administrators, according to The Daily Princetonian. Critics allege that Khalidi is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, and fear that he would advocate his own political views in the classroom...