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...panic. Just hang up, take a deep breath, and log on again. You're not going to Panama, after all, just to a machine somewhere in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And what you are exploring is not an exotic ecosystem but a computer system called...
...Etonian Iagos; the appearance of a beautiful woman who offers a way out of the spy's maze of mirrors. Without raising a sweat, Le Carre propels us from Cairo penthouses to Cornwall pubs, from Quebecois mining towns to secret islands in the Bahamas, from Miami to London to Panama, all of them evoked with an insider's authority...
...espousing doctrines hostile to law enforcement. "The next day, Harvard will be giving an honorary degree to Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, who directed the Slaughter of over 100,000 Iraqis during the Gulf War and was the architect of the U.S. invasion of Panama that left thousands of Panamanians in mass graves. Reno and Powell on campus should be met with protest from students and all decent people on June...
...over the extent of the President's authority to respond to unexpected emergencies. But the real erosion began after World War II. During the cold war era, there were claims that the hair-trigger nuclear stalemate made the notion of consulting Congress obsolete. From Vietnam through the invasion of Panama, there were arguments about what was and was not a "war." In the 1980s the issue was usually whether Congress was trying to "micromanage" foreign-policy issues short of actually sending in the troops. By 1991, however, President Bush could claim with a straight face that he didn't need...
...still starving--but people are starving everywhere, and this argument could expand forever. So the surprise is that our government in these past few weeks has finally recognized that it can't do everything. Our Bushera will to save a country with a military mission from God (remember Panama?) syndrome is over...