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...postelection stage groaned with a menagerie of personages vying for attention: politicians, judges, lawyers, talking heads. Yet who proved himself--once again--the craftiest, the savviest pol of them all? Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist...
...seen his image morph overnight into a Rottweiler. Conventional wisdom holds that a position can't be principle if it is also self-serving. As Lieberman waited to go on Larry King Live recently, I asked him how it feels to go from media favorite to just another pol. With his "What, me worry?" smile, he quoted the late Senator Richard Russell, "You fight until hell freezes over. Then you fight...
...were mere blips in centuries of history through which the principal adversary of the Vietnamese has always been China. Indeed, six years after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Hanoi and Beijing fought a brief border war after Beijing sought to "punish" Vietnam for ejecting the Beijing-aligned regime of Pol Pot from power in neighboring Cambodia. (The Chinese, in that encounter, suffered what might politely be termed a thrashing.) And in recent years both countries have laid claim to the Spratly Islands, a disputed, possibly oil-rich archipelago in the South China Sea. Vietnamese wariness of the power of their...
Getting out the vote is one of the great challenges in U.S. politics, and no one has it tougher than candidates for local office. Thus may we forgive the press-starved pol for resorting to the classic campaign stunt...
...Truce between hammerheads and sharpnoseds is over b) Alcohol level in Panama City urine is abnormally high c) Of Pol Pot shark d) No one knows...