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...weekend to dissuade Carrington, whom Thatcher viewed as a valued ally. He was one of the few members of the Cabinet who could exercise restraint over the headstrong Prime Minister. He once had the self-confidence to tell her, as she got ready for an important meeting with a touchy foreign leader, "Don't say anything for the first 30 minutes." Carrington turned down a face-saving ploy suggested by Whitelaw and Thatcher: the Foreign Secretary would offer his resignation, she would refuse to accept it, and he would then withdraw the proposal. Thus he would have done the honorable...
...aversion to religious practices in schools in Turkey has been motivated not out of any xenophobic hatred of immigrants, but rather, out of a profoundly liberal desire to protect secularism, democracy, and the preservation of women’s rights and equality. Certainly, any state should exercise the utmost restraint before curtailing the freedoms of its people in any way. But the state must also protect the rights of its individual members, especially those most disenfranchised by society. While a headscarf may be a harmless practice by itself, the broader context of Islam’s influence on Turkish society...
...years following 9/11, the Bush administration’s foreign policy has followed a course without measure or restraint, an overstep that has been largely tolerated. Since the attacks, American defense expenditures have skyrocketed 26 percent—a rate of increase unsurpassed in any period of comparable length since World War II. To make matters worse, on Monday, President Bush asked for $515.4 billion for the peacetime military establishment in 2009—a $35.9 billion increase over his 2008 request. This yawning defense budget may seem a necessary evil in light of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan...
...going to find themselves as a single ethnic group very isolated if Kibaki refuses to go for a recount or some sort of power-sharing arrangement," said Binaifer Nowrojee, director of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa. "As long as there is international attention, there will be restraint. The day the international community is taken by other crises on the globe, Kenya will be left to stew in its own juices and it will get worse. This is the kind of situation if it's not resolved now it will blow up later, and that's where we parallel...
...joined with Democrats on a series of crusades in Congress - with Russ Feingold on campaign-finance reform and Ted Kennedy on immigration reform - that a majority of Republicans have opposed. He voted against President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and '03, each time citing the need for fiscal restraint. And during his 2000 campaign, he labeled Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance...