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Dean cited the Bush tax cuts as a prime example of the Administration’s divisive rule. As he has before, Dean called for the repeal of the tax cuts, pledging to put the money toward homeland security and domestic policy initiatives like health care. He accused Bush of being fiscally irresponsible in running deficits...
...took Bush to task for his record on national security, claiming that while Bush is “capitalizing on terrorism for political gain,” he has failed to adequately fund homeland security initiatives and has diverted much-needed money to tax cuts...
...This is my homeland...no one can kick me out." YASSER ARAFAT, Palestinian leader, after the Israeli security cabinet announced its decision to "remove...
...Patrie. Homeland. Vaterland. Fosterlandet. It's a powerful and often vexing concept in any language, let alone in the 11 now spoken in the European Union - or the 20-plus that will be spoken here after the E.U. expands next May. Even so, true believers have long dreamed that all of Europe would one day become a single homeland. That sweet dream took some more hard knocks last week. First the Swedes - a reasonable people famously in favor of solidarity - resoundingly rejected the euro, which many see as the political and economic linchpin of a European homeland. That blow came...
...enough to drive advocates of a common European homeland to despair. The week's events seemed to limn perfectly the need for an almost impossibly supple concept of the Continent's future, in which clusters of E.U. states steam toward closer integration while others lag stubbornly behind. That kind of "multispeed Europe" has always been anathema to those who thought Europe should be more than an "à la carte" menu that lets members do as much or little as they liked. But it may turn out that Europe's refusal to march in lockstep toward union is a good thing...