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...Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear the case where Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe will defend Nike, Inc., the world’s largest shoe manufacturer, in a case that concerns one of the most hotly contested legal topics in the last twenty years—commercial speech...
...moves also betray a mounting desperation. Some North Korean defectors believe Kim is trying to stockpile nukes before the U.S. can coordinate an attempt to topple him. Other defectors say that few North Koreans would rise up to defend the regime if it came under threat. Since taking over upon his father's death in 1994, Kim has overseen a collapsing economy and a famine that killed more than 2 million people. The government cultivates a cult of personality around Kim--citizens are told to treat him as a demigod, and pictures of father and son hang in every public...
...would do so. On North Korea, however, he was more optimistic, insisting that unified diplomacy could force Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear ambitions, even if the same approach had failed to shift Saddam. Whether the reasons for making that distinction is North Korea's infinitely more formidable ability to defend itself by inflicting pain on its neighbors or simply the fact that South Korea and Washington's other key allies in the region are insisting on U.S. restraint, that distinction could prove to be a tough sell to an American electorate resigned, but less-than gung-ho about invading Iraq...
...than that weekly private lunch that Al Gore insisted on when Bill Clinton recruited him. They are together every day, sometimes for most of the day; Cheney attends any important meeting and then often stays behind with Bush alone. As a minister without portfolio, he has no territory to defend or institution to protect, which means that "the President doesn't have to run his advice through a filter," says an aide to the Vice President. "Cheney's view isn't the State Department view or the Pentagon view; it's Cheney's view...
...Middle East. In his speech to the graduating class at West Point last June, Bush made his case explicitly. "Our nation's cause," he said, "has always been larger than our nation's defense. We fight for a just peace--a peace that favors human liberty. We will defend the peace against threats from terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers. And we will extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent." Wilson could not have put it better...