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...other side of the aisle are two of the Democrats' shrewdest floor operatives: minority leader Tom Daschle and his deputy, Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who are no doubt eager to lay traps for Frist and his party. "Republicans claim they want to support civil rights," Daschle says coyly. "We want to give them ample opportunity to demonstrate that." Democratic staff members are rewriting their bosses' talking points to emphasize that poorer minorities will reap little from Bush's tax cuts compared with the wealthy. Senator Ted Kennedy hopes to force Republicans to vote on civil rights--related measures like affirmative...
With her antenna-like pigtails, Nina Wang is one of Hong Kong's least likely moguls. She may also be one of the shrewdest. After assuming control of her husband Teddy Wang's estate a decade ago, she transformed his property development company, the Chinachem Group, into a multi-billion dollar behemoth. But the good times may be coming to an end. After a 171-day courtroom inheritance battle, a Hong Kong judge ruled on Nov. 21 that Nina Wang had "probably" forged her husband's will. The judge awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate...
...Rove, the President's most trusted political strategist and arguably one of the shrewdest man in Washington, won't publicly acknowledge the outcome of the midterms as any kind of personal affirmation. He'll attribute the Republican gains in the House and Senate to the intelligence of the voters or the general mood of the country. Or, more likely, he'll point to the President's appeal - Rove has no time for basking in past successes. This self-described "very competitive guy" is already moving on to the next big thing (which in this case may be the debate over...
...couldn't agree more with Morrow's reference to Baudelaire's statement that evil's shrewdest trick is to persuade us that it does not exist. The very politicians who at the start of 2001 were branded as no more than power-hungry opportunists are now upheld as custodians of all that is good in this world. Maybe evil has managed to persuade us that it does not exist. Evil does not have color, creed or nationality. It comes in many guises and has as its only objective the destruction of good. I implore good and wise people...
What will be the consequence of such innocence? Baudelaire said evil's shrewdest trick is to persuade us that it does not exist. Does bin Laden confirm the existence of evil? Or the stupid ordinariness of awfulness? Both, I'd say. One of the consequences of 9/11 has been to revive, so to speak, the belief in evil. Evil is hard to define, but it's there all right. It's like pornography: you know it when...