Results for “Democratic Republic of the Congo”

… to the formation of a government which is going to include the immediate allies of the party that make up the National Democratic Alliance. It could, too, be made from of a wider coalition, since the BJP—if it is to push through legislative changes quickly—will need additional h...

…Capital Management LP, a New York-based fund of private-equity funds. Died Oct. 18 of cancer. Tom Foley, 84. He was a Democratic congressman from Washington State from 1964 to 1994 and rose to speaker of the House. Died Oct. 18 of pneumonia following a series of strokes. Sally...

and in the 111th Congress she held a large amount of power as the House Democratic chief deputy whip and the vice chair of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee.

…ered better services). Finally, abuse of data is not limited to corporations: In totalitarian states, or even nominally democratic ones, governments know things about their citizens that Orwell could not have imagined. The use they make of this information may not always be trans...

…itor, then Illinois legislator—then his memorable “not Red States nor Blue States but United States” speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. But always with the flaw of compromising where he should not. The second major mistake he made right away was to appoint Hillary to be S...

… us in touch not only with Greenberg but the strategist behind the Clinton victory, James Carville, and another leading Democratic Party consultant and speechwriter, Bob Shrum. We began working with all of them well before the no-confidence vote in the Knesset. Philip had a wonde...

…(see Chart 14). Hence, investors who believe this /s not your typical election (to quote President Obama at the latest Democratic National Convention) may still find that option markets are currently pricing too little of a move. However, as we have recently argued the debate a...

…d” if framed as “we should do X in order to achieve Y.” Which Y should be a high priority is not necessarily settled by democratic vote but might be settled by Darwinian vote. Value systems and religions wax and wane, diversify, diverge, and merge just as living species do: subje...

…ant of all. — Chaim K. In the words of Warren Zevon, “Send lawyers, guns, and money; the s--- has hit the fan.” The Democratic Party is electing a known criminal, and they don’t care, as long as it’s their criminal. They just assume all politicians are criminal, and the reall...

…Leaks (an organization that the Obama administration asserted to be a tool of Russian intelligence after the hacking of Democratic Party leaders’ email in 2016) booked a dozen or more diversionary flight reservations to other destinations for Mr. Snowden. WikiLeaks co-founder Jul...

…tiated “for the purpose” of affecting the presidential election. The chief evidence of collusion is the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers. But nothing in the public record suggests the Trump campaign aided that effort. The collusion narrative therefore hinge...

…in support of the Clinton Foundation. But Epstein, a Clinton donor who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and causes, realized that his Demo- cratic connections weren't going to help him in 2006, when the federal prosecutor was Acosta, a conse...

…tain outcome to the developments in assorted Arab countries. While I and many other Arab citizens feel that the wave of democratic transformations will continue to wash across most of the region

the idealism of our enthusiasts that every new foreign revolution will bring a millennium of democratic peace is absurd.

democratic voting procedures may not produce liberal governments. We know that demagogues and aspiring despots can use the language and even the mechanisms of democracy to build personal dictatorships (Napoleon III and Hugo Chavez