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...blaming others. The President portrays himself variously as the victim of a public that fears change, a cynical post-Watergate nation or the fractionated, post-cold war world. What happens now that U.S. marines have drawn Haitian blood? If the Haiti policy doesn't go well, the Administration will revert to the story it had already begun retailing on "deep background" before the deal was even struck. In that scenario Jimmy Carter exceeded his brief from the start. If the President rejected Carter's deal, the former President would complain that Clinton had refused an agreement that promised a peaceful...
...October 1st the state alcohol law will revert back to the way it's always been. Yet that still causes confusion, since the long-standing state alcohol policy mandates a Massachusetts driver's license or Massachusetts state 1.1) as the only valid forms of identification for the purchase of alcohol. Hence the sign which appears in Christie's and elsewhere...
Chinese legislators, making good on threats, voted to disband Hong Kong's legislature and other elected institutions when the colony reverts to Chinese rule in 1997. Meanwhile, Macau -- a Portuguese colony due to revert to Chinese control in 1999 -- may be in trouble. Officials there accidentally gave reporters a Governor's-eyes-only report describing Chinese Premier Li Peng's "incompetence and bad reputation." China registered "astonishment...
...This upcoming election isn't about whether [Cellucci] and I get re-elected," Weld says. "It really is about whether we keep moving Massachusetts forward or whether we revert to the terrible, misguided mistakes of the past...
...sure. Unless serious changes are implemented upon return in the fall, the council will most likely revert to the same incompetence and illegitimacy which have been so glaring this past semester...