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Reading William Kristol's commentary on why a Republican could win the White House in 2008 made me flip to the cover and double-check the date [Nov. 5]. Kristol must be living in a time warp that sent him back to 1978 if he can describe today's Republican Party as the "anti-Big Government party" and the "party that understands war" while calling the Democrats the "party of big spending." I guess Kristol was away when his party reconvened Congress to interfere with the decision to end Terri Schiavo's life; sent gallant troops to Iraq ill-equipped...
American support for president Pervez Musharraf has always come with a cover story to gloss over the awkward fact that one of the U.S.'s most important allies happens to be a military dictator. General Musharraf may have seized power in a coup, say his defenders in Washington, but he's our sort of guy, the kind of man we need in the fight against terrorism--and, by the way, he has always said he will return his country to democracy. In other words, the Pakistani strongman is crucial to both of the U.S.'s key goals in the Muslim...
...independent-minded Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. That sparked massive protests by moderate Pakistanis, the people who had once backed the general against al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban militants. With a general election looming in Pakistan, the Bush Administration began to write a new cover story, giving its hero an unlikely sidekick: exiled opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom Musharraf had long accused of corruption and misrule. The new script called for Musharraf to step down as head of the army but stay on as President, with Bhutto returning home to become Prime...
Then Musharraf unveiled a cover story of his own. In a rambling, hour-long speech to the nation, he invoked Abraham Lincoln and claimed he had been forced to act because of a rise in extremism in the country. And he accused the Supreme Court of "weakening the government's resolve" to fight terrorism by ordering the release of 61 suspected terrorists in the government's custody. But it wasn't the extremists who bore the brunt of Musharraf's wrath. Indeed, even as his regime cracked down on lawyers, journalists and human-rights activists, it agreed to a cease...
...over the party fund and the suspension of UC funding—however it likes, the fact of the matter is the College got exactly what it asked for: a suspension of reimbursement for alcoholic beverages. While the party fund technically still exists, it can only be used to cover non-alcoholic expenses, which were never a source of contention in the first place.Some argue that the money the UC will dole out in the future for non-alcoholic party purchases is fungible. Party organizers, they claim, can simply use their own funds to cover adult beverages, the UC allotment...