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...long after he took over from Yeltsin in late 1999, the new Russian President began making overtures to the West, first to Blair and then to NATO. Faced with an economic crisis, Putin believed he had no choice but to speed Russia's integration into the world economy. To succeed, he would have to win over the leader of the world's only "hyperpower," as the U.S. is sometimes called in Russia. Before Ljubljana, says a former aide, Putin "devoured an enormous amount of information on Bush and everything related to him." He knew that Bush put great stock...
Rolston’s new position became available when former Boston College associate coach Scott Paluch was chosen to succeed Buddy Powers as the head man at his alma mater, Bowling Green, on April...
While others would find the situation desperate, Saddam has always managed to make his way through. If the U.S. indeed attacks, his paramount strategy will be to weather the assault, hoping that it will prove inadequate and the world will turn against the Americans before they succeed in taking him down. Until that day comes, if it comes, Saddam will rule on from the shadows that protect him from a lifetime's worth of enemies. For him, as long as he's alive, every birthday that passes is another glorious victory...
...angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away. So Saddam also is working to enrich his own uranium. That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed within three to six years, at its current rate of progress...
...illegal in-kind contributions to the Republican and Democratic candidates. However, in Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that debate sponsors have broad leeway in choosing whom to include—or exclude—in candidate debates. Moreover, if the FEC did succeed in such action, it might simply mean no debates at all—clearly the FEC has no power to force candidates to debate anyone. The question, ultimately, is do we really want the federal government to be in charge of how candidates campaign and whom, if anyone, they choose...