Word: wing
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Carr established the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School last year, based on his concerns regarding right-wing extremism in his home state of Idaho...
When the staff and actors of The West Wing TV show mingled with the staff of the real West Wing at last month's White House correspondents' dinner, it wasn't all just idle chatter. For instance, Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council and Washington's uber-wonk, sought out executive story editor Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about an episode involving the Federal Reserve chairman. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright marched up to Patrick Caddell, once the right hand of Jimmy Carter and now a consultant for the show, and told him how much she liked...
...said Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, the reporter who broke the Lewinsky case. "You [had] so many people who [were] portrayed as enemies of the Clintons and as driven by hatred and deep seated animus," he said. "The White House people were very successful in portraying Starr as the right-wing zealot when the truth is, he was not that...
...TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "They've made a major concession to Clinton by agreeing to vote on this as soon as May 22, mainly because most of them want to claim this victory too." But the fact that it's China this time loses a lot of right-wing Republicans over human rights and nuclear spying. So Branegan says the vote may hinge on how many Democrats Clinton can hang on to, which means somehow convincing the labor crowd that following free-trade Bill - again - is in their best interests. And that's where November comes in. "Clinton...
...does now. Telefonica's market capitalization has doubled to $80 billion on Villalonga's watch, and in February he reaped a $17 million windfall from his options. It put him at the center of a political tempest in the run-up to Spain's elections in March. The left-wing opposition to conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a boyhood friend of Villalonga's, attacked Aznar's coziness with the Telefonica chief and the Prime Minister's tacit approval of the stock-option scheme, which the opposition characterizes as a brazen display of corporate avarice. United Left party leader Francisco...