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What's most striking about the Clark boomlet is how little his supporters really know about the candidate in whom they have invested such sudden and stratospheric hopes--a man who didn't declare himself a Democrat until a few weeks ago and who says he isn't sure whether he voted for a Democrat for President before Bill Clinton ran. "He can save this goddam nation from self-destruction," declares New York Congressman Charles Rangel, who is arranging a meeting for Clark with the Congressional Black Caucus, possibly as early as this week. But Rangel acknowledges that...
...risk taking. Designers in the U.S. are predictable in their dedication to sportswear, leaving shock tactics to their European colleagues. Along with predictability comes safety, a belief that certain designers--the triumvirate of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan--are fashion's bedrock. But all of a sudden there was a tectonic shift, as if Klein's departure left everything else on shifting sand...
...back the support of Pakistanis? To temper down, to moderate the Indian attitude toward Pakistan on the issue of the dispute of Kashmir. And also to bring balance. Pakistan had been the strategic partner; India was in the other camp in the cold war. Now all of a sudden India is the strategic partner, and there is a feeling that after the cold war Pakistan was ditched. This has to be rectified...
...Germans." But at the U.N. General Assembly last week, Bush and Schröder met for a 40-minute tête-à-tête, complete with a photo-op handshake and pretty smiles. What's next - Schröder at Camp David or even Crawford? Whence this sudden warmth between two men who presumably still can't stand each other? As a Bush adviser said, "Things change." And Republican Senator Chuck Hagel added: "The forces of reality have set in." Reality, though, has been biting both sides. The U.S.: with every dead soldier in Iraq, the war becomes...
That story, as the title suggests, is America’s sudden plunge from the peaks of the technology boom to the depths of widespread unemployment and war. But Krugman does more than detail how isolated events like the demise of the dot-com era, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Bush’s tax cuts contributed to America’s current economic malaise. His story, as he explained to his audience on Friday night, is also that of his own disillusionment. Krugman says the election of 2000 thrust him into a crisis of confidence, and that...