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...effects felt quickly and that it should not threaten to balloon the deficit so much down the road that it immediately raises long-term interest rates. But once you get past the parameters and into the particulars, the two parties in Congress don't seem to be in accord on anything...
...conservative Republicans any happier with Bush, who has jettisoned some of their more ambitious stimulus proposals, such as cuts in capital gains and corporate tax rates, in hopes of reaching an accord with Democrats. "We're back to triangulation," chortled a congressional Democratic aide, referring to Clinton's technique of cutting deals with the opposition. "The Republicans aren't used to it, and they don't like it." And they said as much to Bush in a testy session Thursday night at the White House. Influential House Republicans, led by majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay, the second...
Trimble should be applauded for his resolute approach to the peace process. Although unionists have regularly made concessions to Sinn Fein and the IRA since the ’98 accord, these moves have not been reciprocated. The agreement mandated that all terrorist weapons had to be decommissioned by June 2001, yet the IRA has made no tangible moves towards fulfilling this obligation. Indeed, the organization rescinded its offer of a weapons handover this past August, contending that it was negotiating with General John de Chastelain’s Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. Unionists were understandably upset over...
...Memphis, Tennessee they watched as the political and economic situation in Sierra Leone remained dire. The RUF signed a peace treaty with the UN-supported government in July of 1999, but broke it in May of 2000 by capturing 500 UN peacekeepers. Then in November of 2000 another peace accord was signed and some of the violence in the western part of the state, including Freetown, subsided. The RUF still controls much of the east, however, including Sierra Leone’s prosperous and contentiously coveted diamond mines...
When a Harvard professor speaks, America’s intellectual elite listens. Fame broadcasts their insights in all the usual places: section, book covers, and even on CNN. But, it is not often that Harvard witticisms adorn the bumper of your Honda accord. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard Professor of Early American History, has succeeded in capturing a mobile market with her quote, “Well-behaved women rarely make history...