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...Around 1978 he had switched his registration from Republican to Democrat. In 1982 he shocked his friends with another abrupt change: he was running for Governor. No doubt his war record helped in the Republican stronghold: he not only won but wowed the state. His romance with actress Debra Winger added to his allure. Then in 1986 he surprised everyone again by announcing he would not seek a second term, despite a popularity rating of more than...
...Washington, Bush embarrassed the Nobel laureate by saying he didn't trust North Korea to live up to the missile agreement Kim has been painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke reinvigorated anti-American feeling throughout Europe...
Towards that end, the Task Force has maintained some self-selection, to include students who do not wish to seek elective office but are interested in politics. Coupled with the decision to preserve the name "Student Advisory Committee," we are left wondering why Pryor employed such an abrupt and dramatic act in November of last year. An attempt should have been made to bring about change through the old framework with mutual discussion. Instead, Pryor has erased a hefty tradition at the Institute and a decades-old legacy, replacing it with a system not drastically different from what was there...
...same sense of imminent threat, in fact, overhangs the economies that the summiteers are determined to bring into trade harmony. The main reasons are the abrupt slowdown of the huge U.S. economy and the stock-market swoon that has destroyed more than $3 trillion in paper wealth. The full effects of the slowdown have not spread to Canada and Mexico, the U.S. partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement, but they are still evident. In South America, Argentina has been engulfed by a paralyzing financial crisis that threatens the cohesion and possibly the fate of the Southern Cone trading...
...agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking at me, and then he figured it out. We embraced and cried...