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...course the "national interest" is the standard President-elect George W. Bush says he'll apply to decisions over using force, decrying the "humanitarian" interventions of the Clinton years as a pointless depletion of U.S. military resources. But in his eagerness to turn the public against the idea of humanitarian intervention, he may do well to remember that, as the Gulf War shows, even the most calculated interventions in the national interest are always dressed up as humanitarian crusades...
...Ashcroft, President-elect Bush's controversial nominee for attorney general, faced his former colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday afternoon for what pundits predicted could be the most contentious - and partisan - confirmation battle in a decade. Ashcroft holds staunchly conservative views on many of the nation's most divisive topics, including abortion and gay rights. As the committee members made their opening statements, an unintelligible protester shouted briefly before being carted off by Capitol police, and it looked like fireworks weren't too far off. P> They even threatened to explode once or twice as committee chairman Patrick Leahy...
Bush is the President-elect. Let the naysayers take a break from second-guessing and give the new Administration an opportunity to present its agenda. Both Democrats and Republicans could end up being pleased with the accomplishments of a Bush Administration. WALTER W. SCHOENHOLZ Barrington...
...outspoken and proud of her prickly intelligence, she has written five books, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities and consistently enraged liberals with her conservative views on feminism, education and political correctness. So it's only natural that the wife of Vice President-elect Dick Cheney is again breaking into new territory and raising some eyebrows. After a temporary leave of absence from her career during the campaign, Cheney last week announced that she will do what no presidential or vice-presidential spouse has done before: she will work outside the home. She will...
...President John Quincy Adams, who was the grandfather of Henry) keeps popping up. George Bush the Elder, in a jocular dynastic mood, has taken to calling his son "Quincy," and over the weekend, the New York Times published a pre-inaugural ranch interview with W. in which the President-elect mentioned he was reading a biography of John Quincy Adams: "If [my father]'s going to refer to me as Quincy, I might as well find out what the fellow was all about...