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...that Schroder is suddenly about to become a Bush booster on Iraq. A pre-emptive war, as one in Iraq would probably be, is unconstitutional in Germany. Schroder won't back down on that. But the Germans have offered, with the Dutch, to take over joint command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, replacing Turkey, in December. "It's pretty clear that Schroder will try to be as helpful as he can to the U.S. within the constraints of his campaign promises," says a British official. But will that be enough to patch up the family quarrel...
...conservative Edmund Stoiber, is close to French President Jacques Chirac, and made little secret of his desire to re-establish the old Franco-German partnership on foreign policy, which would help marginalize U.S. ally Tony Blair in Europe. Not that Schröeder is about to become a Bush booster on Iraq. A 'pre-emptive' war, as one in Iraq would likely be, is unconstitutional in Germany. But, as a British official says, 'It's pretty clear that SchrOeder will try to be as helpful as he can to the U.S. within the constraints of his campaign promises.' The question...
...seconds.) As expected, the Postal Service team didn't begin its express delivery until the first mountain stage, in the Pyrenees on July 18, when Armstrong was 26 seconds behind González de Galdeano. One by one the Posties burned themselves out and fell away like booster stages on a rocket launch as they led Armstrong on a chase of 33-year-old Laurent Jalabert of France on the final climb to La Mongie. The soon-to-be-retired JaJa had been on a solo break for about 40 km in pursuit of a stage win when he turned...
...children whom councilor Brown invoked were, of course, a school of red herrings. Barnstable’s priority is not its natives; the business community’s concerns lie elsewhere. Even the most energetic public relations effort by the aforementioned booster, the doyen of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District and Hyannis’ leading Babbitt, cannot reconcile the Kennedy Compound with the homeless camp, the lobster-wielding old salt with the shuffling transient and the undulating sand dunes with the drifts of tiny liquor bottles that sanitation workers shoveled into dump trucks in mid-July. The homeless...
Times and priorities change. It's disconcerting to the environmentalist to hear the author of This Land Is Your Land sounding like a booster from Houston with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of anachronism--imposing the current sense of racial and environmental decorum upon earlier times. Consider Thomas Jefferson's descent from Enlightenment philosopher and naturalist to slave master and debaucher of Sally Hemings--a fair enough revisionist correction, if kept in disciplined perspective. Of course, one age's evil is another...