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...course a storied life at the head of an insurgent movement more than once left for dead, only to bounce back will play an indispensable role in keeping the Palestinian national movement intact in the immediate wake of his passing. But it may also serve as a political straitjacket on his heirs...
Kerry's obvious frustration with his self-imposed straitjacket not only leads him into lame forays like the troop-deployment gaffe but also to some tortured circumlocutions about the war. Most spectacular was spokesman James Rubin's recent statement that a President Kerry "in all probability" would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein by now. Oh really? I thought Kerry's position was that he would have waited for U.N. inspectors to complete their process--which, we now know, would not have produced evidence of illegal arms--and that he would have gone to war only with a supple...
...second answer is that if you want smaller government, you have to "starve the beast." Larger deficits increase the pressure for spending cuts. President Bush has actually said that deficits are a good thing because they put Congress in a spending "straitjacket." An essay by three conservative economists, including Nobel prizewinner Gary Becker, published in the Wall Street Journal in October, ranked starving the beast ahead of the Laffer Curve as a reason to cut taxes. But there is even less evidence that starving the beast works in real life than there is for supply-side theories. Two rounds...
...smashing visual effects--Tolkien's bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers a delicious horror-movie frisson...
...Roussely's job is at risk. Roussely, calling EDF "healthy, competitive and profitable," noted that government appointees on his board all signed off on his strategy. Plus ça change ... - By Peter Gumbel Everyone's Seeing Red Deficits are back in fashion. Shrugging off the E.U.'s straitjacket on borrowing for the third straight year, France and Germany last week all but admitted their economies wouldn't fit the tight rules in 2004. In the U.S., sweeping tax cuts and a costly war in Iraq brought a slide from surplus - that is so mid-'90s! - to a record $455 billion...