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Unsure what to do next, Kerrey headed to Stanford University, intending to get a business degree. He withdrew before class started and moved across the bay to Berkeley. Somewhere in his mind was the idea he might teach, but "the larger purpose was recovery," he said. There Kerrey learned to...
A few hours later, in a CNN interview, Bush sought to backtrack, claiming that what he was committed to was to "help Taiwan defend herself" and that all he was doing was voicing support for America's traditional one-China policy and the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act?which says only...
Even after this latest episode, a senior Administration official insisted: "This President doesn't need a lot of briefing. He knows what he thinks about the issues, and is not shy about saying it." Others aren't so sure that's a good thing. Said one Republican Senator: "We either...
But the Palestinian side has ample cause to be skeptical of the Egyptian-Jordanian plan, too. Where the Israelis' prime concern is halting the violence, Arafat's priority remains the "final status" negotiations over Palestinian statehood, Jerusalem, refugees and other hot-button issues that collapsed at Camp David. But both...
Zoellick's resume is one of the best in Washington. He was James Baker's right hand during Bush I, and has been an invaluable adviser to Bush II. During the Florida recount, Republican operatives wowed by his district-to-district recall labeled him "the human adding machine." Last week...