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...recent decision of the U.S. Department of Justice to abandon its previous strategy in the Microsoft case—to break Microsoft into separate companies for operating systems and software applications—is an unfortunate step that raises questions about the Bush administration’s commitment to antitrust enforcement...
...European allies that the mighty U.S., so generous with its power since 1945, wants to look after its own interests and let the rest of the world go hang. Star Wars skeptics look to Powell to apply the brakes, to make the true believers see reason before they blithely abandon the treaty and disturb global nuclear stability. Or if missile defense is to go ahead, it needs someone to make its case with reason, firmness and tact, backed by unimpeachable authority--someone, in other words, like the Secretary of State his friends thought Powell would...
Still, Hoffa can't stray too far from the Democrats. Bush has sided with labor when its interests coincide with those of business, but the President is unlikely to abandon his corporate backers on such issues as trade and workplace safety. Hoffa knows that. But playing two sides is already paying dividends...
...European allies that the mighty U.S., so generous with its power since 1945, wants to look after its own interests and let the rest of the world go hang. Star Wars skeptics look to Powell to apply the brakes, to make the true believers see reason before they blithely abandon the treaty and disturb global nuclear stability. Or if missile defense is to go ahead, it needs someone to make its case with reason, firmness and tact, backed by unimpeachable authority?someone, in other words, like the Secretary of State his friends thought Powell would...
...recent Rand Corporation study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force recommends that the U.S. abandon attempts to distinguish between anti-drug efforts and counterinsurgency, and simply set out to help the government defeat the FARC...