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...hard to see how dispatching the Carter mission to Haiti could do Clinton anything but good. If it failed, and the President had to give the order to invade, he could at least contend he had really exhausted every possibility of reaching a peaceful settlement -- despite his declaration on Thursday night that he had already exhausted every diplomatic effort. He could call on three respected elder statesmen spanning a fairly wide political spectrum -- and all announced opponents of the invasion -- to back up that claim...
...forces and thus able to order them into harm's way. The debates over the constitutional status of an invasion of Haiti have been wildly distorted by partisanship. Democrats who insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those invasions even though Congress was never consulted...
Maybe, maybe not. Those Clinton political counselors promoting a tax cut contend that it may be needed to stimulate consumer buying and keep retail sales and production growing. But the President's economic advisers, by contrast, think business needs no such stimulus. They fear that the loss of revenues from a tax cut not offset by budget cuts or revenue increases elsewhere might cause the deficit to start growing again, forcing up interest rates and harming rather than helping business. Clinton has yet to make up his mind...
...with descriptions, it hedges. For example, in describing Professor Derek Parfit's Philosophy 161, Topics in Metaphysics, the guide notes, "Although a handful of those surveyed call [Parfit's] clarity impeccable, a slightly smaller number contend that the import of his lectures can be nebulous." Well, which...
...paper, the talent to contend with the likes of Brown and Dartmouth in the Ivies is there. Losses to graduation were minimal; a solid recruiting class gives Harvard depth at all positions. "Every game, it's really just a matter of tossing dice to choose the starting lineup," Locker says...