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Koresh eventually let 21 children -- none of them his own -- and two elderly women leave the compound, but he remained holed up inside with 90 adults and 17 children awaiting instructions from God. He claimed to be wounded, but he sounded remarkably fit as he broadcast his end-of-the...
But the Clinton team takes a painfully constricted position to the table. Without a threat of Western force, Serbia and Croatia will not accept a fair settlement. Yet the military options Clinton now flashes seem an unlikely check on further Serbian defiance. Christopher's pledge to remain "in the back...
Of all the Great Society programs begun by Lyndon Johnson, Head Start seemed the most ennobling. What could be worthier than tending to the education and health of America's preschoolers? Over time, the program has achieved wide popularity, and the pledge to "fully fund" it has become a kind...
THESE WORDS ARE FROM THE EPIGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX, a book that Bill Clinton has spoken of fondly as his appreciation of F.D.R.'s style of governance has grown. The President has already proved adept at following the dark side of Machiavelli's injunction: during the...
The President's opponents charged that he had abandoned his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class, since new energy taxes will hit all families earning more than $30,000. They pointed out that for the next two years, virtually every penny of the deficit reduction will...