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...backing friendly dictators like President Pervez Musharraf when it suits U.S. interests. The Bush Administration will retreat to its co-dependent relationship with the dictator, regarding him as the only remaining bulwark against a Taliban-style fundamentalist theocracy armed with nukes, and will probably flirt no more with any notion of a truly democratic Pakistan. These chickens will one day come home to roost. Mark C. Eades, Oakland, Calif...
...When she took over the Los Angeles Rams in 1979 after the death of her husband, many scoffed at the notion of a woman in charge. So at her first press conference, Georgia Frontiere, the NFL's first female team owner, lashed out at those who "feel there are two different types of people: human beings and women." The team went to the 1980 Super Bowl, losing to Pittsburgh. In 1995, Frontiere enraged fans in California, where the Rams had been based for 50 years, by moving them to her hometown of St. Louis, Mo. The team went...
...notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.' ANNA WINTOUR, editor of Vogue, on learning that Hillary Clinton decided not to appear in the magazine for fear of looking too feminine...
...current debate is virtually all about tax cuts. Republicans want them to go to business. Democrats want them to go to the poor and middle class. Both parties are fond of tax credits for approved interest groups and favored forms of behavior. The notion that the government is good for anything except issuing checks and printing money has just about disappeared...
...backing friendly dictators like President Pervez Musharraf when it suits U.S. interests. The Bush Administration will retreat to its co-dependent relationship with the dictator, regarding him as the only remaining bulwark against a Taliban-style fundamentalist theocracy armed with nukes, and will probably flirt no more with any notion of a truly democratic Pakistan. These chickens will one day come home to roost. Mark C. Eades, OAKLAND, CALIF...