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...Moscow Olympics for the same reason, and vociferously criticized the martial-law crackdown in Poland. Britain supported sanctions against Iran during the U.S. embassy hostage crisis, even though British diplomats privately believed that the measures would be ineffective. Thatcher has unswervingly backed the U.S. nuclear buildup to counter increased Soviet strategic forces and is a supporter of the controversial NATO policy to place additional intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, including cruise missiles on British soil. Says a senior official in the British Foreign Office: "We gave you our unstinted support when you needed it and have been your...
...great and long day,” assistant coach Andrew Rueb said. “We were very good at taking the game to our opponents today, one through six, and as a coach that’s all you can ask for.” To counter the loss of the captains and preserve the players’ energy, the coaches shuffled the doubles partners for both matches—a tactic resulting in five wins out of a possible six. In the perfect response to last weekend’s defeats to No. 47 Kentucky...
...House charges that by allowing the law to lapse, the Democrats are weakening America's defenses against terrorism. "The terrorist threats to our nation are very real and grave, and inaction by the House in the face of these risks is unacceptable," says White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Democrats counter that many of the authorizations in the stopgap law will remain in effect for another year after it expires. "They've manufactured a crisis where none exists," says Jim Manely, spokesman for Senate majority leader Harry Reid. More than anything, though, the battle is a test of whether the country...
...American public's eyes to dangers from distant lands." Europeans too have suffered from terrorism, of course, but never on the scale of 9/11. For their part, Europeans are cognizant in a way that few Americans are that the use of force in the developing world can be counter-productive, summoning up the ghosts of a racist colonialism among those it is supposed to help. In fact, after their blood-drenched last century, many Europeans are just plain skeptical about force as a policy instrument in any circumstances. Unsurprisingly, those attitudes are held with particular devotion in Germany...
...Dershowitz said that those interested would “have to wait and see” whether he will stage some kind of counter-protest outside of tomorrow’s talk, though he said that Trivers has no credentials to speak about issues concerning Israel...