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...where Bush's experience is more limited and his advisers are divided, he is running greater risks and relying on a moral code that almost everyone believes will be difficult to maintain. The Republican stalwarts who spoke to Time were quick to say they did not want Bush to abandon his preference for the stark choice; they just argued that he should do less of it abroad and more of it at home. Failing to do so, they warned, could endanger his chances at a second term...
...Concerns over everything from the price of oil to the prospect that cutting Saudi Arabia loose might very well hand the country over to the likes of Osama bin Laden are given short shrift. Typical is the essay in the neo-con flagship journal Commentary, arguing for Washington to abandon the Saudis and foment a region-wide revolution against Arab authoritarianism in an effort to remake the Middle East on terms friendlier to the U.S. and Israel...
...even if new laws can force the French to abandon flip attitudes toward drinking and driving - solely responsible for 25% of France's road deaths last year - it will take longer to alter the macho attitude associating speed with virility. Such changes in culture and mindset, some experts say, will come only with imposed discipline over the long run. "Apart from a total alcohol ban, France doesn't need new laws, regulations or devices - rather, better enforcement of existing laws," says Wolfgang Hubner, director of the o.e.c.d.'s transport division in Paris. "The U.K., with roughly the same population...
With the outlaw cafes charging less than 50[cents] an hour, many aficionados seem unwilling to abandon their hangouts just because of another government crackdown. Along an alley off one of Shanghai's busiest thoroughfares, several unlicensed cafes are packed--as scouts keep an eye out for the police. "Why are they trying to close us down?" asks Zhang Guoming, 34, a cybercafe owner. "Coming to an Internet bar is cheaper than karaoke or a pub. There's less harm in it than going elsewhere...
Imagine a group of lawyers traveling on a ship that runs into difficulties in a severe storm. The situation deteriorates until the ship's captain orders everybody into the lifeboats. That is when the lawyers on board begin to argue over the captain's right to order anyone to abandon ship. As the ship slips beneath the waves, the lawyers are still prattling on and on about the legal definition of a sinking ship. A. HAKAN ANDERSSON Lake Cowichan...