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George W. Bush is in the process of finding out. As a youthful candidate who wanted to be taken seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations...
sophomore lasted eight innings and struck out eight, but his six walks proved costly...
With senior winger Kiirsten Suurkask moving to the top line and sophomore winger Tracy Catlin taking over centering duties on the third line, the comination of Ingram, co-captain Angie Francisco and freshman Lauren McAuliffe struck gold...
Yale began the second half with sophomore Clarissa Clarke on the sideline for a check to the head of Harvard co-captain Megan Austin at the buzzer of the first half. Harper struck first in the half with an unassisted goal to give Harvard the first lead...
...bill's provision barring unions, corporations and interest groups from running "issue ads" for or against candidates close to Election Day. Opponents of the bill are also expected to try to plant a time bomb called "non-severability," which ensures that if any part of the bill is struck down in court (the issue-ads provision is a likely candidate for rejection on constitutional grounds), the entire bill would fall. Non-severability, says McCain, "is French for 'kill campaign-finance reform.'" But proponents of it may find support among Democrats, who fear that if courts start slicing off parts...