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...disconnect on security between the U.S. and the government of Iraq crystallized Friday, as Washington made clear it is in no rush to pull troops out of Iraq, just as Baghdad made it clear it's shopping for 36 F-16 jet fighters that could end up costing the war-weary nation close to $4 billion. While it's easy to understand why the U.S. is leery of jeopardizing recent security gains with a hasty troop withdrawal - despite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisting on a timetable for ending the American military presence - the logic of Baghdad's effort...
...Rookie mistakes, perhaps. Ho admits the company "got a little too greedy" by rushing the opening and by targeting mass-market customers. Crown's managers believed all they'd have to do was set up shop to see a rush of gamblers. But with a growing number of casinos in Macau, success was no longer so automatic. "In an all-out competitive environment, it's really a game of inches," Ho says. "Management didn't adapt for the local market." Unlike in Vegas, where casinos are filled by average Joes pumping coins into slot machines, high rollers account for some...
...best precedent is what happened when George H.W. Bush cut a deal with Democrats to raise taxes in 1990. The result was Pat Buchanan's challenge in the 1992 primaries, followed by Ross Perot's in the general election, which together cut the Republican Party's heart out. Already Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson are unhappy with today's GOP. If McCain wins and governs significantly to the left of George W. Bush, the party's meltdown in the early 1990s will seem like child's play...
...against" the Pledge of Allegiance. More substantively, Dukakis ran a weekend prison-release program in Massachusetts that allowed an African-American felon named Willie Horton to go on a killing spree. But what was most distinctive was a new tone: a derisive, sarcastic negativity that predicted, and enabled, Rush Limbaugh's brilliant, destructive trade...
...rush for the extra rooms has quietly begun with email addresses being passed among journalists, activists and anyone else with a connection to the California delegation. They should be gone by morning...