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...Emperors Club prostitution ring, including revelations that he was a client for longer than was previously thought, according to someone familiar with the book's contents. The second, Journal of the Plague Year, by Lloyd Constantine, a former senior adviser and close confidant of Spitzer's, revolves around a three-day period after Spitzer was linked to the prostitution ring but before he resigned, during which Constantine camped out at Spitzer's Manhattan apartment. Spitzer was distraught and leaned heavily on his friend, confiding matters about his relationship with his wife. Now neither Spitzer nor Silda is speaking to Constantine...
...contrast between the Republican and Democratic presentations at the health care summit is telling. The Republican leaders, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, said very little; they let their members with health care expertise do the talking. The Republican delegation had an average age of 60; it included three medical doctors and young policy wonks like Representative Paul Ryan, 40, of Wisconsin. The Democratic delegation had an average age of 66; it included Charlie Rangel, fresh from his "admonishment" by the House Ethics Committee. In the absence of Ted Kennedy, it had no senior legislative health care expert from the Senate...
...blocking strategy demanded a more precise Democratic response. It demanded more forceful leadership from the President, to be sure. It demanded a brisk, disciplined legislative process. But that seems well beyond the capacity of the current Democratic leaders. The most egregious example was Reid allowing Baucus to dawdle for three months, attempting to cut a deal with the Republicans on the Finance Committee, during which time support for the bill curdled as Tea Party Summer unfolded. The Democrats also allowed their own special interests - the lawyers, the labor unions - as well as individual members to barnacle the bill with codicils...
...private companies who hire drivers to operate minibuses (each capable of carrying 14 passengers) and buses for transport within and between the country's villages and cities. These tens of thousands of drivers and vehicle owners were outraged by Morales' decision (previously, the penalties were imposed on a three-strikes-and-you're-out system). These transportistas, as they are known, not only refused to work, but also blocked major roadways. (See Evo Morales and the worst dressed world leaders...
...Indeed, attempted shows of competency sometimes seemed to hinder getting assistance out to the shattered communities. On Monday night, for example, a brigade of troops was delayed three hours so that President Michelle Bachelet could arrive to see them off. The troops themselves were rather green, according to Peter Murphy Lewis, an American professor of political science at the University of Chile, who flew to the badly hit city of Concepción in a Chilean air force Boeing 707 with 340 of the troops. "Many of the soldiers," he says, "were saying stuff like, 'Wow, we are so high...