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...have averted that fiasco and helped the U.S.-Cuba-USSR relationship that eventually led up to the missile crisis. Besides, as much as readers and viewers hate an aggressive media that seems to be stirring up trouble, in the long run - and more deeply - they resent and mistrust a quiet, smug understanding among media and government elites to maintain a united front above simple common sense in reporting. That willingness to straight-facedly repeat nonsense is essential to diplomacy, and it has nothing to do with journalism, which, popular opinion and our own vanity notwithstanding, is not a fourth branch...
...alternative bill that instead of banning soft money would limit it: his measure would allow couples to donate $540,000 in each two-year election cycle to candidates and parties, not much of a brake on the current system. McCain and Feingold knew that Hagel had the quiet encouragement of the White House and that if his bill passed as proposed, theirs was as good as dead...
...gimmick born of economic necessity when the play was first staged in Belfast) every other character, from the diva-like Hollywood star and harried assistant director to an assortment of townspeople, like the boozy old codger who's the last surviving extra from John Wayne's The Quiet...
...administration's initial response was to stay cool, keep quiet, give the Chinese room to move. "The message to the Chinese," says a White House official, "was, 'Guys, this is a very unfortunate incident. We'd like to get it wrapped up as quickly as possible, because if we can get it wrapped up soon, it won't become a crisis.'" But even Powell had trouble getting through for a private talk with anyone who mattered in Beijing, and the public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter...
Considering how often President Bush has declared education reform to be his top priority - he did it again Thursday in a speech before newspaper editors - he doesn't seem to be breaking much of a sweat to save his school plan from the quiet dismemberment it is getting at the hands of Congress. His proposal to give private-school vouchers to children in failing public schools arrived on Capitol Hill pretty much dead, thanks to Democratic opposition. And since then conservative Republicans have stripped the bill of much its attempts to make educators accountable...