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...Still, with speculation growing that Schwarzenegger has designs on a U.S. Senate seat after his term ends, observers say the Governor could have calculated that having conservatives balk at some of his more centrist policies isn't an altogether bad thing politically. "The next time his name will be on the ballot in California is going to be in a campaign for the U.S. Senate four or six years from now," says Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist. "The more the conservatives do to push back at him, the more moderate he will look by comparison. As long...
...John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. And you thought Mohammed Khatami was offensive! Maybe big OBL holds the key to world peace. Maybe not. Either way, this should be easy on Harvard’s wallet: we’re fairly certain that Mitt Romney won’t balk at providing state police "security" for this guest speaker...
...hard to see why Bush would balk at many of the key prescriptions of the report, since they would require him to abandon some key foreign policy positions he has held throughout his presidency. And without any changes in that policy, there is little likelihood that the regional powers whose help is being sought will feel much like cooperating...
...emergency." But the sum effect was cold comfort for the Canadian, British, American and Dutch governments whose troops are bearing the brunt of the conflict. Canadian Foreign Minister Peter McKay, whose country has lost 40 soldiers this year, expressed concerns that an already jittery Canadian public could begin to balk at its commitment if its allies aren't seen as pulling their weight...
...opposed to the operations I was ordered to do,” he says, later adding in an e-mail that he is critical of the Israeli military “only because I hold us to higher standards than anyone else.”And while many Americans balk at the proposal by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., to reinstitute a draft, Harman says Israeli youths often consider military service a “rite of passage.”Efi E. Massasa ’09, who also spent three years in the IDF, says that...