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...same token, now that the Russian people have spoken, it is time to change our attitude to Russia's foreign policy too. During the fight to the , finish between the Soviet-era Congress and Yeltsin, it made sense for the U.S. to back him to the hilt. That meant bending over backward not to offend Russian nationalism: leaning hard on Ukraine to disarm; raising no fuss when Russian troops intervened in Georgia, Tajikistan and Moldova; keeping the East Europeans out of NATO...
...years, succeeding the Democratic fixture, Tom Bradley, who is retiring after five terms. Riordan represents a strong turn toward the moderate Republican right, the result of a backlash against last year's traumatic riots and the city's relentless crime. He played the law-and-order angle to the hilt, arguing that jobs too depend on safe streets because "no business wants to come into a war zone...
While playing up the story of the arrested Americans to the hilt, Israeli officials are now throttling back on the larger charges of a U.S. command base for Hamas. "I'm not trying to tell you this is a fixed organization with headquarters in the States," said Uri Dromi, head of the government press office. "But this is proof of the first seeds of some attempt to centralize the organization and run it from one place." Said a senior Israeli security official: "I don't think Hamas is run only from the U.S., but the U.S. is part...
Diana relishes being her own woman, playing the role to the hilt. She has become an ardent patron of many causes, especially involving AIDS patients, the infirm and deprived children. "I doubt if anyone in the British Isles is better at going into a ward filled with people with cancer or AIDS," says biographer Philip Ziegler. Those close to her say the princess is very savvy and streetwise and, when not in the grip of frustration or rage, well able to size up her position. "She recognizes what people want from her," says someone who has worked with...
...think it was the informality of the whole thing," he says. "It was like their home. You didn't have to be dressed to the hilt...