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...increase, however, should not go toward buying more stealth bombers, designing a new battleship, or developing some fantastical missile defense system. Instead, the money should be used to create a new branch of the armed forces—a permanent peacekeeping force...
...smug understanding among media and government elites to maintain a united front above simple common sense in reporting. That willingness to straight-facedly repeat nonsense is essential to diplomacy, and it has nothing to do with journalism, which, popular opinion and our own vanity notwithstanding, is not a fourth branch of the government...
...differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman of the Kyoto process presided over the unsuccessful Hague conference last year, arrived last week to probe the still largely empty offices of the President's Executive Branch for some augury of what the Bush Administration wants...
...flat-face could displace A. afarensis as a direct link in the human lineage. Or it may be part of a branch leading to Homo rudolfensis, a species with a strikingly similar face that lived in East Africa between 2.4 million and 1.8 million years ago. "You find something beautiful and new, but the conclusion is you actually know less," says Spoor. "But we're getting there...
...comparison with Rubin on divestiture is not the only one O'Neill is up against. Apart from understanding markets, Rubin had perfect pitch when it came to the political ramifications of Treasury decisions - and of course there's the matter of being the executive-branch helmsman of an unprecedented economic boom. So far, O'Neill seems a bit more tone-deaf, especially when it comes to the jittery nerves of the bond markets, and this is in a Republican administration, where the Treasury head is usually the Big Man on Campus...