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...voicing concern for weeks over the Massachusetts court decision, he apparently decided to support an amendment just a day or two before he made his announcement. "He did so reluctantly," says a top aide. "He felt, as others did, that the process was not bringing clarity but becoming more chaotic. The President did not provoke this. He was responding to something...
...Francisco's city hall, Saddam being pulled from a hole, John Kerry hugging a man he saved in Vietnam, Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl, George W. Bush prancing prematurely in his flight suit, Howard Dean screaming, Bush bringing turkey to the troops. The chaotic rush of images--and the President's constant invocation of incendiary words like war and evil--suggests a portentous, emotional year in the offing. It is possible that the passions raised by such images will lead to an intense national debate over the decisions made by President Bush...
...where he abused his privilege to get the assignment in the first place, ahead of more than 100,000 others on the waiting list. If you dream of democratic dominos in the Middle East, you should balk at a unilateralism poised to rebuild Iraq in Afghanistan’s chaotic image. And if you’re a fiscal conservative, well, you probably thought already to check your children’s wallets—metaphorically, for the childless—since the burden of deficits approaching half a trillion dollars will be theirs...
...disagreement might seem to dampen their revolutionary spirit. But it’s exactly this uncertainty that makes the present such an exciting time to study electronic copyright law—the chaotic lack of infrastructure, just below an apparently sound surface, that makes a revolution succeed...
...larger struggle against radical Islam? Saddam Hussein is in jail. There may have been ancillary benefits from the American show of force: Libya has given up its nuclear ambitions; Iran may, or may not, be doing the same. But the situation on the ground in Iraq remains chaotic. The possibility of a Sunni-Shi'a civil war, which could destabilize the entire gulf region, is growing. The U.S. Army is pinned down; morale and re-enlistment problems, especially among the Guard and reserves, are looming. Worse, there is a strong sense in the highest reaches of the intelligence community that...