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...released?are closer to his true feelings about that country. But in his speech, he clearly exempted the use of trade as a weapon of retaliation. That's a disappointment to one audience the remarks were supposed to mollify: conservative Republican anti-China hard-liners, who had been publicly silent for the most part during the crisis but who were threatening to grow more vocal. Bush has still other options. Among them: canceling a planned visit to China in October, or trying to block Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. And though some anti-China folks...
Harvard (18-18, 9-3 Ivy) hopped, hooted, and hollered its way to a sweep over Brown and Yale. The vociferous Crimson squad never went silent, encouraging each other to four wins...
...closer to his true feelings about that country. But in his speech, he clearly exempted the use of trade as a weapon of retaliation. That's a disappointment to one audience the remarks were supposed to mollify: conservative anti-China hard-liners in the G.O.P., who had been publicly silent for the most part during the crisis but who were threatening to grow more vocal. Bush has still other options. Among them: canceling a planned visit to China in October, or trying to block Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. And though some anti-China folks...
Waddle didn't want to be in submarines at first. The purpose of a sub is to be silent and undetectable, not the Waddle style. He would have preferred to be a pilot like his father and his stepfather. But bad sinuses kept him out of the Air Force, and at Annapolis he flunked a vision test, which ruled out flying altogether. He then tried out for the submarine program and got in, passing the rigorous psychological testing that is designed to ensure that the men who run America's submarine fleet can endure the confines...
...Americans to protest. Because it was a mistake that the Americans could not ignore - occupying another country is crossing a certain boundary. When Saddam Hussein entered Kuwait, that led most of the Arab states to support the U.S. in the Gulf War. So the Americans could not keep silent in the face of what had happened in Gaza, even if they believed Israel had been provoked by the mortar attacks...