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...Foreign Relations GOP chair: Jesse Helms, North Carolina Democratic chair: Joseph Biden, Delaware Effect of change: Where to begin? Biden is no revolutionary, but his moderate-to-liberal policies will stand in stark contrast to Helms? isolationism...
...Coming to college, I sought the same kind of facility--a knowledge hyperlinked and accumulative beyond the stark ends of terms, which opened itself continually to the project of intelligent remaking. Certainly mine is a less elegant shoring, a less grand collection than stacks of books or caryatids. But this crude and hasty assemblage is itself the urge to seek out Athenian spaces, Greek or otherwise--spaces from which history, at length and in great detail, allows itself to be made and rewritten...
...trip, of course, but the government hasn't issued a statement since the transit stops were announced. Indeed, Beijing's position on Chen has been to have no position: the state-run media hasn't yet mentioned him by name. But Chen's anonymity in Beijing is a stark contrast to his globally more visible role brought on by recent American approval of a sophisticated arms-sales package to Taiwan and the deteriorating state of Sino-U.S. relations. Increasingly the spotlight is on Taiwan?and Chen. For the island's majority, the attention may be unwelcome. The place...
...phrasing that passes for high insubordination in the Bush White House. But the official was right. Even though Bush and Cheney are in complete agreement on the policies, the difference in tone between Cheney's blunt speech and Bush's conciliatory one last week couldn't have been more stark...
...dollar ad buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (of Conan O'Brien fame) ripping mercilessly on the network's programming mistakes. ("'Stark Raving Mad' was a great show - for me to poop on!") The implicit message: a healthy network can afford self-deprecation...