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...• SGG, the Luxembourg-based fund services provider, has hired Camille Clemons as US business development director. Ms Clemons joins from UMB Fund Services....
...Mr Clemons says she is “repeating history” by taking the defensive and entitled stance that runs in the Clinton family....
...For this group, Mr Hagel’s profile is too close to that of John Kerry, the Massachusetts senator nominated by Mr Obama last week as his next secretary of state....
...Along with John Kerry, already nominated to be secretary of state, and John Brennan, who would move from the White House to run the CIA, Mr Hagel would give the president a team of seasoned Washington insiders...
...Mr Grenell’s sexuality was not a secret and he served for years as the spokesman for John Bolton when he was President George W. Bush’s UN representative....
...John McDermott points out that content has much more policy and numbers focused than in past debates....
...Some, including the New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons, talk about Mr Obama’s impending “Cuban missile crisis”. Much as Nikita Khrushchev misread John F....
...“He was the 13th member of the committee,” said Democratic senator John Kerry, blaming his anti-tax crusade for scuttling a deal....
...The risks for the Saudis, the Middle East and Mr Obama, however, is actually that this 10-year arms-building programme begins to drive not only Iran’s strategic paranoia – which is already high given John...
...There are obscurer throwbacks too: Jo, a 35-year-old local, has come as Olivia Newton-John’s character from the 1980 film Xanadu: a muse called Kira who comes to life from a picture....
...,” said Steve Clemons at the New America Foundation....
...“Obama didn’t just run the bus over Malley, he reversed the bus and ran over him again,” says Mr Clemons....
...He encouraged John McCain to reject the plan: “I think it is a very, very bad idea, and I would argue is a very un-Republican idea,” he told National Public Radio....
...John McCain, the Republican candidate, has had to rid himself of various advisers who were too close to lobbyists....
...“The McCain camp has made the mistake of assuming the gains from the surge would continue in a straight line,” says Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation....
...Steve Clemons, a foreign policy expert at the New America Foundation, says the Obama and Clinton camps are “not yet ready” to deal with the reality of withdrawing from Iraq....
...Both she and John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, criticise the Obama proposals as rash....
...“There are a lot of people assuming that 2008 is a done deal,” said John Bolton at the AEI. “People are counting their chickens before they are hatched.”...
...Of the top three Democratic candidates, John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, has taken the most aggressive stance....
...In November, Barack Obama, whom he had long backed for the presidency, defeated John McCain. “In the twilight of his life, he’s achieved the recognition he has always wanted,” Wien said....
...“If you want a serious debate about the pros and cons of the Bush administration’s diplomacy then you have to read the Jerusalem Post,” says Steve Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation,...
...Among the leading candidates only John Edwards has proposed an overhaul in how to frame it....
...With the exception of John Edwards, who says Mr Bush’s “war on terror” is a “bumper sticker” but has done little to explain his underlying thinking, the foreign policy stances of the leading Democrats are...
...Steve Clemons, of the liberal New America Foundation, said: “If the Dems had just controlled the House, they could have got away with posturing and public hearings....
...Unlike in Vietnam, where the draft lottery meant that members of the elite, such as John Kerry, the failed 2004 presidential candidate, served in uniform, the Iraq war has disproportionately drawn in people...
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