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...California, with its $38 billion deficit, is in a class of its own. The intensely partisan state legislature in Sacramento last week failed for the 17th time in 25 years to pass a budget on time, with Republicans refusing to accept any tax increases and Democrats calling for a mix of increases and spending cuts. Davis is attempting to bridge the ideological divide in Sacramento, but he can't avoid sniping at some of the Republican cost-saving proposals, including raising the age for kindergarten eligibility. "I won't sign a budget that slams the door on more than...
Dean's chain of websites, run mainly by tech-savvy campaign manager Joe Trippi and the campaign's four Internet-dedicated staff members, has a sense of fun that rivals old-time political carnivals. You can download the Dean Techno Dance Mix of one of his speeches from dean2004.blogspot.com howarddean.tv offers Dean appearances delivered to your desktop. Then there is blogforamerica.com (blog is short for weblog), a candid daily journal updated by staffers from wherever Dean happens to be. Communications director Kate O'Connor was reluctant to file to the blog at first, but her entry writing--sprinkled with exclamation...
...scholars are a mix of young and veteran scholars, which Faust said is a desirable combination for the Institute...
Better than most diplomats in the nation's history, Franklin understood that America's strength in world affairs would come from a mix that included idealism as well as realism. When woven together, as they would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy. And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause. "America's great historical moments," historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, "have...
...Nanahara is a somber schoolboy who survives more due to luck than killer instinct. In the sequel, he reappears as the almost impossibly intense and charismatic?though still somber?terrorist mastermind. Holed up in his ramshackle fort, torn between enlightened world-weariness and revolutionary zeal, he's a teenage mix of Osama bin Laden and Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. "They may call us evil," announces the philosopher-terrorist in a bin Laden-style address, "but we'll never abandon our struggle for justice...