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DIED The man many republicans blame most for George H.W. Bush's reneging on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge was Bush budget chief Richard Darman. As a top aide to Ronald Reagan, he was both an intellectual and a savvy technocrat. Yet the economist could be stubborn. After persuading Bush to reverse himself to reduce the deficit?a move that deeply damaged voters' trust and one that Bush called his biggest mistake?Darman maintained the error was tactical; the plan had just been badly presented. "I'm a long-term idealist and short-term realist," he said...
McCain's own view on the contest of resumes is typically stubborn, even righteous. "Even if the economy is the quote 'number one issue,' the real issue will remain America's security," he told reporters yesterday. "And if [voters] choose to say, look, I do not need this guy because he's not as good on home loan mortgages or whatever . I understand that. I will accept that verdict...
...Zhou's vault to Web stardom came last April, when he was visiting Chongqing, a municipality in central China. Intrigued by a dispute that pitted a property developer against a stubborn homeowner whose refusal to leave his property had blocked the launching of construction, Zhou began writing blog entries and posting video and still images on the Web. The incident caught the imagination of Chinese Netizens, and Zhou and the Chongqing "nail house" (named thus because it stood out in an otherwise leveled landscape) became an overnight sensation. Apparently embarrassed by the publicity, the city government and the developer soon...
...lost his slim working majority in the Senate on Monday when Mastella announced that he was pulling out of the coalition following a magistrate's filing of influence-peddling charges against him and his local politician wife. Most expected Prodi to promptly submit his resignation, but the sometimes stubborn 68-year-old former European Union president challenged his fellow lawmakers to the individual oral vote on Thursday. After the vote, Prodi submitted his resignation to President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, who now has the task of either searching for Parliamentary support for a bipartisan caretaker government or calling snap...
...eyes of even our closest allies, the Administration's Iran policy amounts to a lurch from one imagined crisis to the next. But between U.S. hype and the rest of the world's indifference lies the stubborn truth about Iran: the most populous and economically thriving country in the Persian Gulf is run by a regime that arrests and tortures critics at home while fueling destabilization and violence abroad. What America needs is a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands. What would such...