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...criticism of Bush's decision stung more than the suggestion that his father had made it for him. Campaign aides had been struggling over just how to handle the old man standing behind the dugout since before the primaries. They have tried to capitalize on the public's nostalgia for the former President without giving credence to the enemy position that the son is a mere stand-in for the father...
REASON Like Britain, France has been stung by incidents with tainted food. Its attitude is colored by hostility to U.S. imports and a desire to protect French farmers...
When it comes to foreign policy, one day George W. is his own man; the next day he's most emphatically his father's son. As the Republican nominee - famously stung last year by his failure during an interview to name the heads of state of three out of four foreign trouble spots - moves to burnish his foreign policy credentials, his father's legacy offers both assets and liabilities. Candidate Bush may have preferred a different last name Monday when he courted the pro-Israel vote in an address to the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in which...
...Stung by criticism, the IMF has already pledged some reforms, including greater transparency, greater efforts toward debt relief, and a heightened focus on preventing financial crises before they start. Whether these changes were the result of anti-globalization protests or other pressures is uncertain; however, the political forces behind the demonstrators in Washington are very clearly playing a game of chicken with the global economy. Should the continuing efforts of the protestors result in an IMF and World Bank more sensitive to the needs of the developing world, the protests will have accomplished an important goal; the austerity measures...
...stung a fair amount but it didn't sting for long," says Paul Maasdorp '03 of the whipping he suffered at St. John's College in Harare, Zimbabwe, an all-male private school. The only "beating," Zimbabwean for disciplinary caning, that Maasdorp took in high school consisted of two strokes, administered after he was caught engaging in tomfoolery during a speech given by the St. John's headmaster. Egregious crimes warrant more strokes, with six as the maximum. Of Maasdorp's 90 graduating classmates, "70 to 80 percent would have been beaten during some stage of their high school career...