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...Around this time I became aware that the endless line and being grilled by me were not the only endurance tests these brave individuals were facing. Many were also having to survive that ultimate stress - an on-camera interview with Jay Leno. It seems that the prospect of creating one of his trademark "people-in-the-street" segments with this many disturbed people to choose from was irresistible to the "Tonight Show" host, who was wending his way through the crowd...
...until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently named Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp down ethnic strife. But now tank shells are flying again, and the real prospect of more widespread killing looms. So what came of all that effort to make Macedonia the star pupil of the troubled western Balkans? Was the problem intractable? Or was the response inadequate...
...Some are advocating that the only realistic option now is to go ahead and reach an agreement without the U.S. Clearly there's no prospect of getting the Americans back on board now. Some see this as simply another sign of the growing unilateralism of the Bush administration, citing examples ranging from national missile defense to North Korea to Russia. And they believe that they'll manage to forge a stronger agreement without Washington, which will eventually bring pressure on the U.S. because it will apply global standards that will result in American companies' losing business abroad...
...Thursday night will not come until Monday. But after five years of butting up against Trent Lott's gatekeeping and McConnell's filibustering, John McCain and his shadow army of disgruntled voters finally got a soft-money ban onto the table, out where he could tempt senators with the prospect of a slightly less prostituted existence, if they were willing to take a chance. And more than half of them took...
...Mitch McConnell went straight for the other Democrats' queasy stomachs, daring Snowe-Jeffords supporters who say they've made it constitutionally sound to put their money where their mouth is and taunting Democrats with the prospect of big bad conservative special-interest groups run amok. "We will need the political parties to defend our candidates if Snowe-Jeffords is struck down," McConnell said...