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...Washington-Beijing relationship was already tense enough when the Clinton Administration allowed congressional pressures on Taiwan to jostle its larger China-policy goals. "Prepare for difficult times," an Administration official said darkly. "This is another nail in the coffin of China policy." Beijing's ultimate reaction could range from trade retaliation to rapprochement with Iran to, perhaps most troubling, noncooperation with U.S. efforts to resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear-weapons program...
...this point, they knew the hope of making the tournament was over. The loss earlier to Yale opened up the coffin, and Dartmouth was the nail...
...terrorism. These people are far beyond the scope of my beliefs. Paranoid anarchists have very little, if anything, in common with mainstream Americans of a conservative stripe. Tougher law enforcement is a hallmark issue with most conservatives and Republicans, and we favor greater empowerment of federal authorities to nail these fiends before they have a chance to strike again...
Well, not exactly. Fenway Park, venerable home of Boston baseball for almost a century, was dead as a door nail...
...very long time, and his preparations have finally borne sweet fruit. Last Sunday, after a tough come-from-behind campaign and a nail-biting finish, Chirac, 62, defeated the Socialists' candidate Lionel Jospin by a comfortable margin. He will thus succeed Socialist Francois Mitterrand, 78, whose second seven-year term ends on May 20. For a man who had lost presidential bids in 1981 and 1988-and who seemed to have been eliminated from this race only a few months ago -- it was an extraordinary personal vindication...