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...There's always been some dissatisfaction withthe U.C. among students, and officer candidatestraditionally like to exploit that," he said."It's a strategy that works...
Bush's ad makes several unproved assumptions about what Clinton would do in office and ignores the Democrat's proposal to cut taxes for the middle class -- precisely the kind of folks depicted in the Bush spot. Yet the G.O.P. ad does exploit a confusing element of Clinton's economic program: he has proposed raising taxes on couples earning more than $200,000 -- representing, he has said, the top 2% of wage earners. The Bush projections are based on the 2% figure -- which actually includes people with incomes of less than $200,000. The Clinton camp has acknowledged the slight...
...Sung's clock points to a great historical puzzle. Why did China, where so many things were invented, exploit its creativity so poorly? The Chinese discovered paper and movable type, yet the country was virtually illiterate until the 20th century. Gunpowder was also invented in China, yet its cannons were inferior to those made by Europeans. China's bustling cities, despite their vitality, never stimulated the intellectual ferment that in Europe led to innovation...
...Kissinger and Nixon with transforming America's understanding of the world. Instead of seeing the U.S. as engaged in a struggle against an evil monolith, world communism, Nixon and Kissinger viewed the Soviet Union and China as traditional nations driven by competing interests; they designed U.S. foreign policy to exploit that competition in order to create a new, stable balance of power. It was, Isaacson writes, "a triumph of hard-edged realism worthy of a Metternich...
...candidate's resolve. Clinton backs the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates proposal for a single moderator, in part because it allows for more give-and- take between principals. Two weeks ago, Bush agreed to two debates before a panel of three journalists and a moderator, seeking to exploit his ability to match wits with reporters while avoiding a single moderator's power to focus on a single issue, like the economy. The Bush camp gave Clinton until last Friday to agree to its terms. The deadline passed. Both sides agree on one point: unless someone relents, the debates...