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...that he was referring to his concern that there may be enforcement concerns in the future should the United States enter any other agreements with North Korea. Publicly doubting the credibility of the parties even before they get to the negotiating table is always a good tactic for "getting to yes" on the peace settlement Bush claims to endorse...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, the tactic worked against Harvard when defenseman Ben Wallace unleashed a wrist shot from center ice to put Cornell up 5-1 at 17:05 in the third period...
Like the Amish in Witness, these Socialists in Gallagher's extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black...
...Garza, a federal appellate judge in Texas who is further to the right--and volubly opposes Roe. Republicans hope that a Hispanic pick would tie Democrats in knots, although for some Senators, antiabortion views would outweigh diversity. Naming a woman in O'Connor's place would be a similar tactic. Edith Jones, another quite conservative federal judge in Texas, has been on the G.O.P. list for years. A less well-known option: Janice Brown, a California Supreme Court judge who is African American...
...thing the new numbers do confirm is what is now almost universally acknowledged: that in calling for recounts in specific counties, the Gore camp made a strategic blunder. Apart from fueling public suspicion that he was cherry-picking counties apparently most beneficial to his cause - a tactic that probably fueled already vociferous opposition - it also appears that he had little to gain in terms of votes by narrowing the recounts to so few counties...