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...allies at home are worried more about the politics of it. They acknowledge that the overall goal of fighting terror is vital, dovetails nicely with Bush's way of thinking and keeps the Democrats off balance. But they fear that his real challenge is growing at home, where the prospect of a double-dip recession looms. Many of these Republicans were surprised in January when Bush's strategist Karl Rove said the G.O.P. will make the President's "handling of the war on terrorism the centerpiece" of its plan to win back the Senate and keep the House in November...
...just has to find a law school which will accept an application mere weeks before most English law schools start—and after contacting every college of Oxford and Cambridge and many other schools, he has just one prospect, he said...
...Zinner: At this point there is no specific anti-viral agent proven to be clinically effective against West Nile virus. There are a few candidates, and while they've only just begun clinical trials, the prospect for future vaccines or treatments is good...
...prospect of a new Pax Americana in the Middle East generates little enthusiasm among Arab leaders across the political spectrum, however, and concern over their ability to manage the domestic political backlash against a U.S. attack on Iraq has prompted them to declare their opposition. Both Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and the Saudis have emphasized the need for progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front before any action on Iraq could even be considered. If Powell and the Old Guard prevail over the hawks in the battle for President Bush's ear, he is unlikely...
...steady stream of conservative columnists has been asking the question "Do We Still Need the Saudis?" (No, is the usual answer). Concerns over everything from the price of oil to the prospect that cutting Saudi Arabia loose might very well hand the country over to the likes of Osama bin Laden are given short shrift. Typical is the essay in the neo-con flagship journal Commentary, arguing for Washington to abandon the Saudis and foment a region-wide revolution against Arab authoritarianism in an effort to remake the Middle East on terms friendlier to the U.S. and Israel...