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Opposition movements gain popular support when governments are seen as playing into American hands, and this phenomenon adds to the instability of the Middle East. If the U.S. wants real stability and not tenuous regimes, we must be willing to honor self-determination, even if the results at first make us uncomfortable...
...pretty decent argument it's related to what he's already doing," says John Barrett, who was an attorney in the Iran-contra probe of Lawrence Walsh. But to Starr's critics, the wiring of Tripp was outside his legal authority because its connection to Whitewater was so tenuous. Starr also arguably subverted the protections built into the independent-counsel law by making it impossible for the Justice Department to conduct its own investigation, as it is legally required to, before he started taping Lewinsky. "It sounds like the Justice Department was presented with a fait accompli," says Wake Forest...
Even such tenuous feelers toward the U.S. put Khatami on the other side of the political barricades from his nation's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Spiritual chief Khamenei and other militant hard-liners still prefer shouting sulfurous slogans at the "Great Satan" and setting fire to Old Glory. Khatami has been walking a line between the Iranian reformers and mossbacks from the day he was elected. At an Islamic summit in Tehran last month, Khatami reportedly passed the word that he intended to reshape and moderate Iran's foreign policy, but it would take him two years to build...
...remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...
...change in short-term interest rates. Which was exactly what Wall Street was expecting; trading on both the Dow and NASDAQ was robust all day, and was expected to continue unflinching in the wake of the announcement. Faced with weighing the high-octane U.S. economy against the tenuous financial markets overseas, the Fed has not changed rates since late March; they will remain at 5.5 percent. In Money Daily...