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The doubters were wrong. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the deficit for the fiscal year that ends in September will be $177 billion--less than half the $413 billion deficit of fiscal 2004. The President will, by all appearances, not only meet his pledge but do so two years...
Opening the doors to Iraq's departed would be smart as well as moral. And it would allow this generation of Americans to live up to George Washington's pledge that "America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all...
Siniora's statesmanship seems to work even beyond Lebanon's fragile borders. In January, he scored a political coup by persuading 41 countries at a donor conference in Paris to pledge $7.6 billion for Lebanon's reconstruction. He is also pushing for an international tribunal that will put on trial...
Although Siniora welcomes U.S. support, he bristles at opposition taunts that he is America's agent, in part because his relationship with Washington is not always an easy one. Apart from criticizing what he terms Washington's "one-sided" support for Israel, Siniora became angry during the Israel-Hizballah war...
Political life has been unsettling too. Software failures and gaffes committed by the city's election commission bollixed last Nov. 7's election. The upshot: hundreds of perplexed and angry voters couldn't cast ballots. In January, days after moving into the Governor's office, the ever smiling Bill Ritter...