Word: chairman
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...literally told Prime Minister Barak to "Go To Hell." This political understanding of the situation stems not from race but rather from a universalistic, humanitarian understanding of the importance of diplomacy and peace-making, which has been tragically prevented, as Elie Wiesel has stated, by the "intransigence of the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority...
...bipartisanship is different. Like defining truth and beauty. "There clearly is a lot of leeway in what people have in mind when they talk about bipartisanship," Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman deadpans. Conservative Republican senators in Trent Lott's leadership team, such as Majority Whip Don Nickles and GOP Conference Chairman Rick Santorum, are singing the bipartisan anthem, but they are committed right wingers with aggressive staffs that haven't mellowed...
...negotiate via press conferences, has ordered his aides not to discuss his negotiations with the Republicans. Lott has offered Daschle a 50-50 split on committee budgets and staffing, but he still insists that Republicans have a majority of one on each committee and that they all have Republican chairman. But Lott is having problems from some of his committee chairman (like Sen. John McCain. who will head the Commerce Committee) who are undercutting his bargaining position by saying publicly that they have no problems with sharing more...
Geoffrey F. Reed '03 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. He is serving as campaign chairman for vice presidential candidate John F. Bash...
...Texas, "Henry B." developed his combative style in the 1930s by boxing in illegal matches to pay his college tuition, eventually becoming a Golden Gloves champ--a skill he almost used in a Capitol Hill cloakroom on a G.O.P. colleague who called him a "pinko." In 1989 he became chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee, speaking out on the S.-and-L. scandals and Iraqi arms sales--and calling for President Bush's impeachment. Though a hero to South Texas Hispanics, Gonzalez refused to be classified "ethnic." Said he: "There are no Hispanic issues, no Anglo issues--only people...