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...Guantánamo. Few expect Bush's second term to be as unilateralist as the first. But he will be skeptical of treaties and international law. ASIA China's boom makes it an indispensable economic partner for Europe and the U.S., but its cheap wages and huge trade surplus lie behind popular complaints about "exporting American jobs" - which Bush may need to respond to. Washington doesn't want European companies to sell high-tech defense goods to Beijing that might give it an edge in a fight over Taiwan. The U.S. has said it can't tolerate a nuclear-armed...
...Student Activities Fund, which funds non-alcoholic campuswide social events, underwent extensive review this summer following a $10,000 surplus that was never allocated to student groups. The fund, a $25,000 trust, is controlled by the Dean of the College...
During the 2000 presidential election, then billed as one of the most important elections in decades, the nation had to decide which candidate it wanted to spend a large budget surplus and appoint new justices to an aging Supreme Court. Four years later, the choice facing American voters is much more complicated. The budget issues sill loom large, and the Supreme Court, unaltered in its membership, is only getting older. But now the United States has a war on terror to fight and an international reputation to recover. In a world Americans now know is hostile and dangerous...
Children’s Hospital has managed to pull out of deficits accrued during the late 1990s—last year, it had a surplus of $28.7 million, and in 2002, $15 million...
Leland has a weakness for phrasemaking and surplus rhetoric but a real gift for connecting centuries-old developments in American life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clich?...