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They succeeded. Brown blinked, and now many of his own party are braced against a backlash. "He'll look weak, indecisive," said a party insider. "It's a question of character...
...They were battling on those fronts this week. Giuliani's folks have been dropping hints that Romney is weak on fiscal discipline, in part to strengthen their position in tax-obsessed New Hampshire. Romney, still ahead but slipping in the Granite state over the summer, has fired back with a radio ad noting that he alone has signed the no new taxes pledge. "I'm proud to be the only major candidate for President to sign the tax pledge," he says, "The others have not." Romney goes on in the ad to make another promise: he vows not merely...
...want to be a spokesperson unless you are absolutely committed to a cause because you can hurt it. I've been asked to help represent environmental groups. I'm a big proponent of cleaning up the environment. I have two electric cars. But I also have a big weak spot because I've flown on private jets. However, I welcome any of these dumb pundits who make celebrities out to be bad guys to a discussion about Darfur. Because I've been there and I've met all the players, and I guarantee you, the pundits haven...
...left out of the boom, it would be easy to conclude that Hu's job had hardly started. In his first years in office, it was often said that Hu was unable to get his vision adopted by powerful provincial leaders. But the old judgment that he is a weak leader may be changing. Li notes that the President has spent the past five years ensuring that the top bureaucratic and party ranks were staffed by his allies. Green detected a growing assurance in the times he met Hu. "In the beginning," he says, "Hu would conduct his meetings with...
...said she thought the “fundamental problem” was that since the 1970s, American toy makers have been able to choose when to disclose problems with their products. “What has changed in the last 6 years is that we’ve had weak regulation and the regulators who are supposed to be keeping the toy makers from putting the dangerous products on shelves have been asleep,” Felcher added. Kuneva said that while Europe has benefitted from the U.S. idea of “consumer advocacy...