Word: remarkable
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...than he was on Jan. 21. That's not to say Cheney isn't an immensely powerful player in the Administration. His reach extends famously from foreign policy and defense to energy, antiterrorism, congressional relations and more. But Cheney's star has dimmed ever so slightly since his dismissive remark about conservation being a "personal virtue" rather than effective policy. He helped make Bush seem out of touch...
...That remark could cost Castro almost $30 million. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned--or raped, as Martinez claimed in the suit she filed two years ago. It charged not only Roque but also the Cuban government with committing sexual battery against her each time she and Roque had intercourse. The suit was widely regarded as a symbolic gesture--until a Miami circuit-court judge this year awarded Martinez $27.2 million, to be garnished from Cuban assets frozen in the U.S. under the rules of the economic embargo. Locating and collecting that dough will be hard...
...message. Securing quality time with a U.S. President signals that Russia remains a "great power" --if only because it retains its Soviet nuclear arsenal. Moscow lobbied hard for the meeting and wasn't pleased that Washington was slow to agree. Russian officials took note of every dismissive remark the Bushies made about Russia and were quick to point out that Bush found time to meet with the Prime Minister of Caribbean St. Kitts and Nevis (pop. 40,000) before he managed to squeeze Putin into his schedule...
When historians look back on the past 10 years, they will surely remark on this anomaly: At a time when American power and our stake in the world were at an all-time high, Americans' interest in and knowledge of international affairs...
...Minh, the communist leader, voiced to a French diplomat on the eve of his war with France in 1946. "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, but in the end I will win and you will lose." I heard roughly the same remark from General Vo Nguyen Giap, the eloquent North Vietnamese commander, when I asked him during an interview in Hanoi in 1990 how long he would have gone on fighting against the U.S. He thundered, "Another 20, maybe 100 years, as long as it took to win, regardless of cost...