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...have noticed, this didn't happen. Bush won the election, for a change with more votes than his Democratic opponent. The party it supports couldn't unseat a President who launched the implausible invasion of an unthreatening country that most Americans wish we would get out of. The federal government is essentially a one-party system. In making their decisions, the conservatives who run the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives need not, and do not, consider the minority Democrats. For now, all potent opposition will come from disgruntled Republicans. Though the President's approval ratings have...
...good guy. It's just that the pressure, the situation of him being as good as he is and the demands on his time, it's very hard to get close to a person like that." Singh didn't like Woods' comments about the Sorenstam affair--"I wish Vijay hadn't said that"--or rumors that Woods suspected him of using an illegal driver. Woods fumed when Singh's caddie wore a hat at the 2000 Presidents Cup emblazoned with the words TIGER WHO?, and of course he hates trailing Singh in the standings. Woods declined to talk to TIME...
Greenberg was, until recently, one of the valued CEOs who dutifully hit his numbers. Investors who didn't ask how he did it may wish they had. A broad range of AIG transactions are now being probed by regulators, and AIG's shares have plunged...
...ruled that King’s assassination was not the work of a lone gunman, but instead a conspiracy by individuals who, to this day, remain unnamed. I imagine King was killed because his philosophical evolution combined with his international prominence made him too dangerous to those who would wish to maintain a brutal system of white privilege, imperialist exploitation, and unchecked capitalism. Those who conspired to murder him may never be uncovered or punished. However, we can see to it that we give King some justice by not sitting idly by as a more extensive and dangerous conspiracy...
Agca's motives remain shrouded. Italian police believed he was working at the behest of a Bulgarian government trying to satisfy a Soviet wish to be rid of Solidarity's patron. Italian journalists recently claimed to have seen East German files on Soviet involvement in a plot to kill the Pope...