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...think he's too mellow," says one guard. "I think he's just riding the tide to retirement...
...central notion that legal scholarship and experience are of paramount importance in the selection and confirmation processes seems to have drowned under the tide of special-interests that have bastardized the last three Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Unfortunately, Clinton seems intent on continuing this tragic decline--this summer, he promised a pro-choice nominee...
Egypt is hardly alone in contending with a rebirth of Muslim fundamentalism. A tide of religious fervor has been sweeping across the Islamic belt, threatening to turn half a dozen countries into theocratic states akin to Iran, Sudan and Afghanistan. Terrorism, intolerance and revolution for export are some of the by-products. In their drive for cultural ascendancy, Islamists have found fertile ground in denouncing Western values -- and inspiring violent assaults...
...that American semiconductors -- which claim 53% of the world market outside Japan -- would be allowed at least 20% of Japanese sales. That is not happening, and so Kantor is moving quickly to put teeth into a new set of rules. Otherwise, he warned, there would be "a rising tide of resentment, a feeling among many Americans that they are getting the short end of the stick...
...certain to outlast it. "We have these convulsions periodically," says Thomas Mann, a senior political analyst at the Brookings Institution. "Some kind of behavior comes to the surface because of a particular event, then we get a flood of publicity and obligatory surveys. Everybody points fingers, and then the tide subsides and we return to greater normalcy." While that may be true, the country's need for affordable child care is a tide that will keep on running...