Word: poste
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...million... Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), perhaps not surprisingly, is worth about $80 million... Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) put himself through law school playing the markets and made about $75,000 trading in 1999. "I wouldn't do it if it weren't profitable," he told the Washington Post...
Richardson's understated reaction to this week's scandal has only served, observers and opponents argue, to underscore his reputation as an unsuitably blas? presence in a high-security post. Adding fuel to this fire, on Wednesday he skipped a congressional hearing into the Los Alamos losses, a move that garnered considerable ire in the form of a strikingly unsubtle rebuke to the secretary: The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the nation's first National Nuclear Security Administration. But that wasn't the end of Richardson's nonchalance. In a statement apparently devoid of irony, he reportedly complained that the creation...
...impact of outside contact on its closed ideological system, while South Korea is getting over an economic slump and would fear being overburdened by any sudden move to reunification. They're more likely to take incremental steps, over many years, rather than rush into a Germany-type scenario." Post-Cold War realignments that have seen both Russia and China abandoning their traditional hostility to Seoul and building ever-closer relations with South Korea have left the Dear Leader little choice but to make nice with the South. And, of course, it helps that Seoul's leader, President Kim Dae Jung...
...Haiti? 16. Affirmative action? 19. Sensation of the 1958 World Cup 21. New Rochelle, N.Y., college 22. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against her 24. It may be blown 25. Grp. wanting less arsenic in H2O 26. New guns 'n' butter man in Times Square 28. To __ (perfectly) 30. Post-O.R. destination 31. Sweater letters 33. It's rethinking its use of inmates as telemarketers 37. Preakness winner Red __ 39. Further shorten, in a way 41. Play in which the word robot was coined 42. Nuclear gps.? 43. 10-Down coin 45. Nick's time, on the tube 46. Deal...
This is where New Age politics joins hands with 19th century precedent. I propose that the candidates get out of their rocking chairs one night a week and participate in a kind of post-Clinton presidential Olympics, an event that might, in the TV listings, be called Who Wants to Be a President? The game would consist of a series of challenges, exemplary events that would test the candidates while sparing the public their self-serving improvisations...