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...employed chemical ones. He has broken international law, mocked treaty commitments and flouted the U.N. The global community defeated him in war and ordered him to disarm, only to be defied for more than a decade. He has never, in his 24-year dictatorship, shown the least willingness to reform, even when his people nearly starved under the brunt of international sanctions. "In my judgment," said Bush last week, "you don't hope that therapy will somehow change his evil mind...
...piece of President Bush's economic plan, ending the tax on dividends, is getting the silent treatment from what is typically a core source of support for this White House: the business world. The last time the idea was raised, during Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax-reform effort, big corporations actively fought it because they didn't want shareholders to hound them for dividends when they would rather invest the money elsewhere. This time most companies have kept quiet--in part, congressional sources say, because they fear getting on the wrong side of a White House that is known...
During the State of the Union speech, congressional Republicans applauded President Bush's plan to pass a $400 billion Medicare reform package before 2004. But some Republicans on Capitol Hill who have fought and lost many Medicare battles fear the White House is too distracted by Iraq and the economy to deliver on an issue dear to their constituents. They say they are concerned they will be stuck defending a plan they don't fully support, without even the help of the President's megaphone. "I'm worried that once the war begins we're going...
...Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was humiliated in state elections last week in Hesse and Lower Saxony (Schröder's home state). And it's not the rival Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which despite its gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light - it's referred to as the Dark Room by pundits - this secretive political council hammers out agreements on legislation that has been...
...will fight for improvements we can see while we are still here. We hope to fight for more fair Harvard with enhanced financial aid, more support for those in need of better help, and alleviate frustration on a number of academic and non-academic venues. We hope to reform our grants process to make the greatest impact on campus life. We are also fully prepared to get back into the business of producing great concerts and other social events for the community...