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...take your country to war when it doesn't really want to go? You could subcontract with another nation, fight on the sly and hope no one notices. But if you need a lot of troops to prevail and you would like to remind everyone in the neighborhood who's boss anyway, then what you need most is a good reason--something to stir up the folks back home...
...worry that it won’t be dramatic enough, that the ‘If it’s not broke, don’t fix it’ policy will prevail,” notes Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures William Mills Todd III, former dean of undergraduate education. “There needs to be some changes, beyond fine-tuning...
...open process, followed under law, was there public bidding, did we prevail in the bidding, were the concerns worked out?” he asks. “I think the answer to all those things...
...this year. But Vice President José Vicente Rangel said the planned vote was unconstitutional because it would come before the mid-point in Chávez's term. The opposition has collected more than 2.5 million signatures in support of the referendum, and polls show they would easily prevail...
...reason Arafat may yet prevail against these odds, however, may have less to do with any enthusiasm among Palestinian legislators for his autocratic rule than with some of the key political issues that divide Arafat from his challenger. Abu Mazen has made clear that he intends to put Palestinian security services to work disarming the various unofficial militias, such as the Fatah-based Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, and also to clamp down on the militant Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Arafat opposes the idea of confronting the militants, for fear that this could lead to a Palestinian civil...