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Both the President and Congress are taking up residence in false premises. Bush should not expect the totalitarians who run China to change their behavior at home and abroad simply to keep U.S. tariff rates low. Says Zhu Qizhen, the Chinese ambassador in Washington: "We are not going to beg the U.S. to extend MFN." Congress would be equally naive to think cutting off MFN will force China to reverse its economic and security policies. Such a public loss of face would be intolerable to Beijing...
While economic sanctions were not meant to include food and medicine, they have effectively done so, according to health professionals in Iraq. In hospitals where children lie dying of malnutrition, mothers hovering over cribs hold out a hand when they see a foreign visitor and beg, "Haleeb, haleeb," (Milk, milk). Because the cash-starved government can no longer afford to subsidize the cost of imported baby formula and other staples, prices have skyrocketed. A can of Similac cost half a dinar ($1.50) before the war; now it costs 20 dinars...
Other may beg to differ...
Consider: the admissions director of Harvard Medical School came to Leverett for a panel discussion and left with a copy of The Ad to put in my file. I had to beg my parents not to write a letter to The Crimson complaining that The Ad omitted some of my elementary school accomplishments (blue ribbon, kindergarten bike rodeo...). And people still stop me on the street to tell me they're sorry I didn't win the Marshall...
...child killer. Anthony Sarivola, a fellow inmate with a reputation for mob connections, offered to protect Fulminante but demanded to know the full details of the crime. At that, Fulminante admitted he had driven the girl into the desert, forced her to perform oral sex and made her beg for her life until he shot her twice in the head...