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...Gonzalez 2 Year-end temp 3 He now runs the Kremlin 4 Al's predecessor 5 Avail oneself of 6 Republican also-runner 7 Itar-___ (Russian news agency) 8 McCain opposes its subsidies; Bradley used to 9 Thai's neighbor 10 A deg. held by some lawyers 12 Bradley/Gore pol. affiliation 16 She supported 26-Down's decision on 1-Down 20 Tiebreakers, briefly 23 Charged atom 24 Newspaper that broke the Paxson story 26 Org. that ruled that 1-Down should be returned to Cuba 27 Jetsam of 1773 28 Comedian Bill, to his friends 30 Cokie...
...photo op no savvy pol would want to miss: The Grand Canyon, glowing orange and red in the fading sunlight, gaping and huge and entirely... American. And since no one has ever accused Bill Clinton of being less than savvy, there he was Tuesday, perched on the edge of the chasm, announcing his decision to designate three new national monuments, including land along the north ridge of the canyon, and to also expand an existing site. And while the assignation of national monuments often yields little more than a pretty picture, this case is a bit different...
...NGUYEN GIAP INDIRA GANDHI THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE MARGARET THATCHER IDI AMIN DADA FIDEL CASTRO LECH WALESA EVA PERON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HO CHI MINH CHE GUEVARA F.W. DE KLERK NELSON MANDELA V.I. LENIN BENAZIR BHUTTO KEMAL ATATURK GOLDA MEIR DAVID BEN-GURION MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK POL POT ADOLF HITLER...
...still came at a terrible cost. "How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation, a Holocaust, the extermination of 'inferior peoples,'" notes presidential historian Robert Dallek. "We don't need evil. We'd do fine without Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Think of the amount of money and energy used in World War II--if only they could have been used in constructive ways. Good doesn't need evil. We'd be just as well...
Sometimes it is: McCain will often fill his travel time with animated discussions about global hot spots from Chechnya to China. When a local New Hampshire pol asked him a question about Lebanon last month, he unfurled a lengthy answer that included a consideration of whether Syrian President Hafez Assad will be succeeded by his son Bashar or his brother Rifaat. While McCain swipes at Bush's reliance on foreign-policy gurus--"When there is a crisis," he says, "I won't have to consult advisers"--he talks shop with many members of the foreign-policy firmament, including Jeane Kirkpatrick...