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...Bush administration may be tempted to maintain President Clinton's waiver - the widespread, if relatively muted, recognition among the GOP's foreign policy grownups that the longstanding embargo of Cuba may no longer be serving the U.S. national interest, if that interest includes influencing events in a post-Castro scenario. Publicly, of course, they'll all hold the line. Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell on Wednesday dutifully upheld the embargo during his confirmation hearing, even though he'd previously concluded at the end of his own book that it was time to end the Cold War isolation of Cuba...
...Gulf War, plainly and simply, was about oil. Saddam?s invasion of Kuwait dramatically increased his share of the world's oil supply, and if it had been allowed to stand, he may well have planned to roll over Saudi Arabia, too. And that scenario, which would have given him the power to unilaterally control and dictate oil supplies and prices, was never going to be acceptable to Washington or the other industrialized nations...
...doubts about his innocence. Far better, from his vantage point, to let the GOP do his work for him - so he's stubbornly refusing to consider such a possibility, insisting instead that he will fight every charge and eventually prove his innocence. And that promise, of course, raises the scenario that makes Republicans cringe: A wildly popular ex-president with plenty of time on his hands dusting off the old law books and planting his righteous cause all over the front pages of the country's newspapers and magazines...
...Tigers play a skilled offensive game that nobody in the ECAC has. Their ability to zip the puck across the ice in precise fashion--always looking for the open man--created a nightmare scenario for Harvard's beleagured defense and for senior goalie Oli Jonas...
...open the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. To many environmentalists, Norton's tendency to consider corporate interests when making land-use decisions, considered alongside Bush's repeated insistence that current land protection policies are too broad, lead many environmentalists to fear Norton could represent the worst-case scenario for America's federal expanses; groups like the Sierra Club are gearing up for a well-funded drive to defeat Norton...