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...kind of moment Democrats love. Carol Roberts is running for the U.S. House of Representatives against Republican Clay Shaw. She thinks she can win because a Democrat nearly beat Shaw last time and she has the prescription-drug issue in her quiver. So the Palm Beach County commissioner fired up a controversial TV ad last week. Roberts appears with four seniors in the 30-second spot, pitching a phone number that advises seniors how to save money by filling their prescriptions in Canada via the Internet. (The number connects to her campaign and is designed to be a lure.) Shaw...
...cannot even begin to imagine. Nevertheless, reapproachment and financial integration must be priorities of our new policy in the region if we are to have hope of avoiding another Sept. 11. Guided by the image on our nation’s seal—an eagle bearing a quiver of arrows and an olive branch in its talons—we must realize that we cannot win friends in the Islamic world by bombs alone. We need money...
...subpoenaed to give evidence to a French judge investigating the killing of French citizens in General Pinochet's Chile. Dr. Kissinger declined the invitation. But it's unlikely to be the last one he receives. And sooner or later, the European indictment will become a standard arrow in the quiver of aggrieved parties across the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe...
...Other words in the White House's quiver of talking points include "leadership" and "modern." Because Bush may take hits for doing little to relieve the pinch voters feel at the pump, the White House hopes to counter by saying that Bush is showing LEADERSHIP by focusing on long term solutions to the nation's energy problems instead of political quick-fixes. Which is what Clinton would have done (and did, last year, when he tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve...
...Powell is a smooth operator, and he has plenty of persuasive arrows in his quiver. For starters, he'll make clear to detractors that the sanctions are on the verge of collapse, with some of Washington's key regional allies such as Egypt concluding free trade agreements with Baghdad, and that salvaging an deal to tighten controls on Iraq's access to weapons is about the best Washington can hope for. After all, the success of sanctions depends less on the demeanor of Congress than on the actions of Iraq's neighbors, where the Republican hard line finds very little...