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...sticking to the center and making both Democrats and Republicans work for him. In late 2000 he remarked of Democratic legislators, ?Their job is to implement my vision.? But Davis got into trouble when times turned tough - first during the 2001 energy crisis and then during the budget mess - and he had no allies to turn to. It was easy to get things done when he had a 50% approval rating. A few months ago, with his ratings in the 20% range, he had no capital with lawmakers. Does Arnold have the skills to do better? He better hope...
...with his parents, who just want him to meet and fall in love with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could...
...Qaeda's New Home" [After 9/11: The Iraq Mess, Sept. 15], you described how bin Laden's network is rallying new recruits to battle U.S. forces in Iraq. It seems likely that the same political situation that made it possible for the Taliban to take control in Afghanistan will now emerge in Iraq. Foreign, mainly Arab, volunteers may enter the country in massive numbers, carrying with them one great desire: to fight the U.S. soldiers who occupy the country. The foreseeable future looks bleak when one takes into account that the voluntary jihadists have a clear-cut goal...
Only half a year after the U.S. in effect declared the U.N. irrelevant and went to war in open disregard of it, the Bush Administration is asking the people of other nations to pay for America's miscalculation and the resultant chaos in Iraq. Even though the mess was created by America and Britain, the U.N. should try to assist the suffering Iraqi people as best it can. But any step to accommodate the U.S. and Britain should be contingent upon their renewed and unambiguous commitment to respect the U.N. FREDRIK S. HEFFERMEHL Oslo...
...will cost an estimated $112 billion. Indeed, every Democrat running for President has proposed something similar. Normally, this sort of thing is risky: Republicans can be counted on to squeal about "class warfare" whenever Democrats complain about tax cuts for the rich. But times are tough, Iraq's a mess, the looming deficits are enormous, the President is waning in the polls. "This is probably their strongest argument going into the campaign," a prominent Republican told me. But the Republican response to the Democrats' unanimity on the subject has been curiously muted. All of which got me to thinking about...