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...else. "Today under George W. Bush, there are two Americas: one America that does the work, another that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks. One America--middle-class America--whose needs Washington has long forgotten, another America whose every wish is Washington's command." It was a great speech for a Democratic audience, but it couldn't lift him to the nomination...
Even lawyers who have faced off against Edwards tend to speak of him in warm terms. "With Johnny, he was never not good to his word. I wish I could say that about all the lawyers I've faced," says Raleigh attorney Alan Duncan...
...allowed to take advantage of her career experience. When Masako married Crown Prince Naruhito, I was so happy. I admired him for having waited for Masako for six years. It must have been true love. The imperial marriage was a good model for Japanese young people. I wish the Imperial Household Agency [the ultra-traditional overseer of the activities of Japan's royal family] would change, so that the Harvard-educated princess, who worked in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, could live her life to the fullest. Yoko Ninomiya Hiroshima...
...President, Jefferson would develop a keen taste for the federal power he had deplored in opposition. He recalled that a decade earlier, in Washington's Cabinet, Jefferson had seemed like a man who knew he was destined to inherit an estate--in this case, the presidency--and didn't wish to deplete it. In fact, Jefferson, the strict constructionist, freely exercised the most sweeping powers as President. Nothing in the Constitution, for instance, permitted the Louisiana Purchase. Hamilton noted that with rueful mirth...
Showing compassion and command, Ike's portrait is considered one of the best. But some veterans wish the World War II hero had posed in his signature Eisenhower jacket...