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...would add that Americans want politicians to stop the negative campaign ads. I want to hear each candidate's stance on issues and ideas for the future, not demonization using distortion or misinformation. From Donald Segretti's campaign of dirty tricks in the employ of Richard Nixon to the Swift Boat Veterans' attack on Senator John Kerry, such tactics have debased and degraded the electoral process and turned voters off. Can't we have a campaign with integrity? Jane Dineen Hackensack, New Jersey...
...would add that Americans want politicians to stop the negative campaign ads. I want to hear each candidate's stance on issues and ideas for the future, not demonization using distortion or misinformation. From Donald Segretti's campaign of dirty tricks in the employ of Richard Nixon to the Swift Boat Veterans' attack on Senator John Kerry, such tactics have debased and degraded the electoral process and turned voters off. Can't we have a campaign with integrity...
...answer: soon. Back in September he promised to relinquish the keys to 10 Downing Street before this fall. He declared an intention more recently to carry the flag for Britain at the G-8 and European Union summits in June. That indicates a narrow summer timetable for the anticipated swift transition of power to his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. But as Blair looks forward to the 10th anniversary of his first election victory, on May 1, London's famous chattering classes are wondering if he'll make it that far. An alliance of raucous opponents on the right...
...discussions over church doctrine that marked their old positions. Bertone came on the job just three days after the Pope's controversial speech in Germany about faith and violence that angered many Muslims. The new Secretary of State hit the ground running, orchestrating what, by Vatican standards, was a swift response that included conciliatory public statements, a quickly organized meeting with ambassadors from Muslim countries and, ultimately, the success of November's trip to Turkey, where the Pope surprised his critics with a moving prayer together with an imam in Istanbul's Blue Mosque. "Words have great value," says Bertone...
...employees' taxable income. Making a portion of these benefits taxable, Bush the Elder reckoned, was a smart way to pay for health care for folks who had none. But G.O.P. leaders were apoplectic. Didn't Bush understand that a tax hike meant political death? The uproar was so swift and furious that White House staffers spent the night using razor blades to excise the offending page from printed budgets...