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...very sorry that he was sick. I think he was severely ill. It makes things difficult as you look back, because what he did was just horrifying. There's no other word for it. It was horrifying...
...chairman Robert Lenhard. Clinton's operation in particular relied heavily on traditional big donors, most of whom maxed out during the campaign on the amount they were legally allowed to give. Meanwhile, amid hard economic times - and absent the political intensity of a hard-fought campaign - it is more difficult to get small donors to open their checkbooks. Still, Clinton is determined to clear her balance sheet. "She feels a real moral obligation to pay off the debt," says Begala, "to pay off every last nickel to everybody." As for his own role in her latest fundraising drive, Begala says...
...Clinton, the challenge of raising money to pay off those last bills is made all the more difficult by the fact that the only creditor she has left is the firm of Mark Penn, the controversial political consultant who came up with her widely panned pseudo-incumbency campaign strategy. In an election year when voters were looking for freshness and change, that may have been the biggest of all the mistakes Clinton made. A quarterly filing that Clinton's campaign made late Wednesday with the FEC showed that it remains $2,307,740.82 in debt to Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates...
...more difficult than boarding a moving bus," says Vikas Kapoor, a former chief officer on a Hong Kong-registered container ship, of the frequent hijackings he witnessed and heard of in the Gulf of Aden during his stint onboard last year. "The pirates come at you firing rocket launchers. You can outpace them if you're a fast, high-decked container. Otherwise you'll have to slow down or risk being blown up. Then they'll bring out their ladders, climb onto your deck, guns in hand, and it's all over in seven to eight minutes." Describing the passage...
...trapped at the Trinidad summit," says Nikolas Kozloff, who endorses Chávez's social policies and is the author of Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. "Populism thrives on conflict, but now with Obama in power, that's more difficult to achieve." After Washington and Caracas expelled each other's ambassadors last year, Kozloff adds, "Chávez faces a difficult choice: either proceed with his rhetorical strategy against the U.S. and risk alienating those in Latin America who want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, or come to a diplomatic...