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...many in Washington, the emergence of Adan is one more reminder of Chavez's autocratic urges - and of the possibility that Chavez himself is Fidel Castro's real successor in Latin America. His nationalization scheme evokes the seizure of private businesses in Cuba after Castro's 1959 communist revolution: it ousts U.S.-based companies like Verizon, part-owner of the Venezuelan telecom giant CANTV, and the AES Corporation, which controls Venezuela's main power utility. Chavez asserted this week that while he'll compensate both U.S. firms, he won't pay them a market rate. And when the Bush Administration...
...mouth resuscitation - to mix my metaphors - this bird is not going to fly. So the Conservative Party is in a rather strong position. I was just reading the papers this morning - the government is in rather an awkward position because Blair said a number of things, and [his presumed successor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon] Brown. They said Europe can't work without this new constitution. They said we needed a great battle in the United Kingdom - "Let battle be joined" was Blair's remark - and we're going to have a referendum. It's intensely embarrassing for them...
...time might be ripe for Cameron. Blair has said he'll step down before the fall. His presumptive successor, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, is saddled by a more leaden style, a darker visage and a government that is losing popularity, largely because of the mess in Iraq. But Brown does not have to call an election until 2010, so Cameron can't rely on the war to deliver 10 Downing Street to him. Every second week he makes a foray from what he calls "the Westminster bubble" to some farther-flung outpost of the kingdom, meeting as many...
...also no stranger to presidential search committees, as he was the deputy chair of the committee that nominated Hennessy, then provost, in 2000. Hennessy later recommended Etchemendy, who was at the time chair of the Philosophy Department, to be his successor...
...common. Both find themselves politically hamstrung by an ongoing bloodbath far away while facing electoral doubts at home. Both are obsessed with securing their respective legacies, with the U.S. race for '08 heating up and Blair's announcement that he intends to step aside this year for successor Chancellor Gordon Brown. Now they have one more thing in common: brought to you by Channel Four, the same company that last year controversially imagined Bush's assassination in The Death of a President, Britain's PM comes under fire in The Trial of Tony Blair - another installment of what some might...