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...impossible to evaluate the nature of candidates' ideas on the basis of self-serving campaign rhetoric. After all, Bush promised to be a political uniter who would rev up the economy, curb excessive government spending and avoid nation building. Those seemed like good ideas at the time, but what is the reality today? I am not convinced that Kerry has any particularly new ideas, but I would be thrilled to have a President who had fewer horrible ones. ARDY HAGEN San Jose, Calif...
...issues," he said, and lifted the blockade. But his aides say the week's events were carefully choreographed to underline Abashidze's authoritarianism and stir up voters in Saakashvili's favor. Saakashvili believes Abashidze's party will be wiped out at the polls, allowing the new legislature to curb Ajaria's autonomy. If Abashidze tries to fix the vote - as Shevardnadze did in November - Saakashvili's supporters in Ajaria will launch their own revolution of the roses. But even if the best-case scenario pans out in Ajaria, Saakashvili has two much more difficult nuts to crack - South Ossetia...
...Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, for example, in which nearly 400 syphilis-afflicted black Alabamans were unwittingly forced to endure their disease in order to facilitate medical research, remains a terrible blight on the U.S. Public Health Service. The purpose of the study was initially benevolent: trying to curb the raging syphilis epidemic among southern blacks. But its eventual costs in human life were appalling...
Unable to curb a Harvard offense that had already jumped out to a 13-point lead, Dartmouth coach Chris Wielgus made a rare coaching decision—one part strategy and one part, well, frustration. With 6:34 left in the first half, she pulled all five starters...
...that point, however, that I was struck with a revelation. “Sex and the City” might have been over, but “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was about to begin...