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...Atlantic Alliance. Yawn. Or perhaps a ritual bow is the more appropriate response. It's a Great Worthy, one of those things politicians shower with clichés about D-day and the Berlin Airlift before shifting their speeches to the interesting stuff. We heard it last week when George W. Bush met Tony Blair for the first time to wave the torch of the Anglo-American "special relationship." Said Bush: "This is a chance for me to tell the Prime Minister how dedicated my administration will be to an alliance that has made a huge difference in the world...
...Triangle. While methamphetamines had previously been sold either in powdered or crystalline form, new labs in Burma and northern Thailand commoditized the methamphetamine business by pressing little tablets of the substance that now retail for about 50 baht ($1.20) each. At first, only bar girls like Jacky smoked the stuff. Then some of the younger guys who hung out with the girls tried it. And then a few of the housewives began smoking, and finally some of the dads would take a hit or two when they were out of corn whiskey. Now it has reached the point that...
...Sure, Professor Mansfield known his stuff, but it's my T.F. for the class who's the real gem. This is his 14th year of grad school--all of which have been devoted to the works of Leo Strauss--so he's got a ton of experience teaching sections...
...White House air-charter business have done serious damage to his public standing. 'The best politician the Democratic Party has turned up in a long time turns out to have a tin ear,' said a longtime friend. 'He has squandered his moral authority with a lot of this stuff. It leads people to say, "This man isn't really a populist; he is a phony, a fraud." And though this perception is completely wrong in substance, it is enormously damaging and has to be dealt with. He has to regain the moral authority to call people to sacrifice...
...This was heady stuff; the newspaper set up a stand-alone section of its web site and prepared for a frenzy of activity. Would the recount results fuel Democrats' conviction that the election was stolen by a partisan U.S. Supreme Court? Or would the new numbers establish unequivocally that George W. Bush won the presidency...