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The Telegraph also ran an article by Richard Perle, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense, attacking British, French, and German leaders for trying to influence the Senate vote through an article in the New York Times . "Why didn't the Senate congratulate its friends [Blair, Chirac, and Schröder] on their wise and timely counsel?"
Another significant development the two papers note: The rightist candidate went to the winner's headquarters to personally congratulate him.
Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.
. I particularly want to congratulate the Police Department.
Reporters usually either put such indiscretions off the record on McCain's behalf or congratulate him for making them.