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...Hillary supporter yelled at me. "That is the most incredibly sexist thing I've ever heard." Yes and no. My guess is that Hillary Clinton would roll into Iowa with an incredible, Howard Dean-like head of steam in January 2008, and then the folks-yes, even the Democratic base-would give her a very close look and conclude that a Hillary presidency would be slightly dodgy. The Clinton line in 1992 was, Buy one, get one free. We've already had that co-presidency-for its full, constitutional eight years. What's more, I suspect there would be innate...
...three or four years," says one - though according to MORI, half the public would prefer Blair to leave this minute. Penn, who helped Bill Clinton come back from several major reversals, thinks Blair has plenty of juice left. "We successfully beat back the Tory appeal to their base, and we lost 2.5% on Iraq to the Lib Dems as a protest vote. This isn't Lyndon Johnson swept away by the Vietnam War. I think the protest is temporary. Blair has an opportunity to heal things and renew his leadership...
...provider - which also meant shedding 10,000 to 13,000 staff in Europe by the end of June. Lower profits and high labor costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs at the company's panregional headquarters in Tour Descartes, Paris. "Things that used to be formally done there will now be moved to the ladies and gentlemen in the field," says Fred McNeese...
Coulter represents the "Ugly American" in a little black dress. Whether she truly believes her shrill rhetoric or is simply opportunistic, there are legions who base their opinions on what she says. Your article ignored the danger of her racist and extremist ranting and gave her undeserved credibility...
...more effective and entertaining in chronicling the brawls "between liberals and radicals" during the cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time when magazines served as forums for "moral and political argument, rational deliberation, critical analysis...