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...Supreme Court 16 years ago, American conservatives have been waiting for wholesale reversals of the Warren era's liberal precedents. But despite six Republican presidential appointees to the high bench since then, the turnaround has not materialized. One of the most powerful forces holding back the conservative tide has been a small, slightly rumpled, elderly gentleman with a ready smile and a legendary gift for gab, William J. Brennan Jr. Court observers agree that the liberal Justice, even in the supposed exile of dissent, has emerged as the master strategist of the Burger court...
Junior Michele McAteer, returning to action from a bout with tendinitis, couldn’t stem the tide, retiring two hitters before Chelsea Wolfe smacked a two-run blast over the left field wall...
...What turned the tide? In a word, nation building. Winning over the Afghans by piecing together their war-shattered country has done more to weaken the Taliban and al-Qaeda than any military operation, say Afghan and American officials. U.S. troops who arrived in Afghanistan expecting to battle Taliban in the ravines now find themselves instead in grim, barren places like Omar's village laying irrigation pipe. And once the villagers began trusting the Americans, say Afghan officials, they slowly abandoned support for the Taliban...
Both Stone and Halldorson, however, agree that the tide of the game might turn on the power play...
...complexities of Asia cannot be captured by the ideological U.S. belief that only the rising tide of democracy can save the world. Americans believe that the recent election in Baghdad and demonstrations in Beirut are natural, benign extensions of the democratic tide that washed Georgia and Ukraine before reaching the Middle East. But where Americans see rising tides, others see the emergence of new rivers of history. Some may lead to happy ends, some...