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With a possible presidential race ahead of her in 2008 and a second Senate term recently secured in the 2006 midterm elections, Hillary Rodham Clinton is long past her days as first lady in the White House. Yet, just like an annoyingly catchy single by a reinvented-for-the-new-decade star of 90s pop, they just keep bringing back Hillary, circa...
...Asked about all the diplomatic and military crises facing the adminsitration after the drubbing Republicans took in the midterm congressional elections, Hadley said the President is "a very resilient guy" who has taken to heart his own message that the struggle against terrorism will be long. "Look," Hadley said, "it's a new Middle East that is emerging. And I think he sees it as a real opportunity, but also [its] challenges...
...midterm congressional elections, we reported how President Bush's dogged insistence on sticking to his guns had left him a lone rider. Readers argued over whether Bush is an embattled hero in a white hat and whether he and the nation need to change horses...
...These are the ones that come into section and explain to you that, unfortunately, everything your professor lectured about was wrong. So whom should you believe: the professor or the TF? Who knows—just make sure you guess right when it’s time for your midterm. Finally, there are the TFs who you have no idea if they are good or bad, because you spend the entire class just trying to figure out what the language they’re using...
There's only one thing dumber in politics than picking a fight when you don't have to; it's picking one when you can't win. That's why pretty much everyone in Washington is mystified by Nancy Pelosi. Through a midterm-election campaign in which Republicans had tried to caricature her as a fuzzy-headed and dangerous San Francisco liberal, she succeeded in keeping the focus on them. And the first woman Speaker-to-be was pitch-perfect in the euphoric days that followed the Democrats' big win. She said the right things, and she did the right...