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...think, along with not being able to see, would be an overwhelmingly bad combination. However, extreme altitude slowed down my team, so I actually had more time to plant my axe and kick solid steps in the steep snow. On the Hillary Step, I finally felt in my element. Similar to Hillary's own description, I wedged myself in a crack, my gloved hands scanning for holds, my one cramponed boot biting the rock, and my other jammed in a cornice of ice. It was 40 minutes later, when my brain was barely in charge of my body...
...Iraq was, at least in part, an example of this Bush doctrine in action. The Bush Administration’s concern over Saddam Hussein’s apparently insatiable appetite for WMD, weapons of mass destruction, constituted a major element in the case for war. Iraq’s failure to comply with the disarmament provisions of U.N. resolutions dating back to the 1991 Gulf War was the cause of the international crisis that, after much diplomatic wrangling, led to war. Ultimately, Washington concluded that regime change was the only reliable and durable solution to the threat posed by Baghdad?...
...tell the public to be optimistic, Mr. President," is how a participant summed up the advice business leaders dispensed at another recent White House session. That may explain why the President refuses to give up on trying to end the tax on dividends, the most politically unpopular element of his package. His advisers also believe that elimination of this so-called double taxation can provide a quick "optimism boost" to the stock markets. White House officials point to forecasts of a quick rise in the Dow of between 5% and 20% if the measure is passed. "There is no more...
...They didn't work members on the front end," complains a senior Republican Senate aide. "They only started talking to them after senators had taken their positions. That won't do." They also complain that the administration relied too heavily on the president's war popularity as the magic element that would push the plan through. Several Republicans took note of an ABC poll last week that says that 57 percent of those asked said that the president's plan favors the rich...
...think the most important element of it was a feeling that I had missed teaching and research and being at Harvard,” Rogoff said. “That’s really...