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Depend on it; these expressions of support and any that follow come with a price tag. A top-level Saudi delegation to Washington last week stressed the need to address the grievances of the Palestinians. Russia will not expect to hear a lot of moaning from Americans about its behavior in Chechnya. Pakistan will expect some economic relief for its battered economy. (And Pakistan will get it; sources tell TIME that Japan has already offered cash and loan guarantees to Islamabad.) George Bush's war will be one of strange bedfellows...
...broaden his party's base in the north. He has called for allowing Mexicans abroad to cast absentee ballots. "All Mexicans, wherever they are, should have the right to vote," he said, weeks after his inauguration last Dec. 1. And he transformed the Office of Mexicans Abroad into a top-level presidential agency to link directly migrants and the chief executive and serve as an advocate for them in the U.S. Fox has said that he intends to be President to "all Mexicans"--at home and abroad...
...Harvard surrounds itself with top-level competition in order to keep its skiers eligible for the NCAA tournament. The NCAA-driven schedule paid off this year for the first time since 1995, as freshman Anna McLoon qualified for the tournament at Middlebury College...
...would trade Giambi for future prospects, the only players the team can afford. But when the prospects become top-level players, the A’s will have to trade them too. The same thing happened to the Montreal Expos...
...during the campaign, Rove was hooting into his headset. But this week the political guru will enjoy some R. and R. in Florida. He has little choice. This is a relaxed and productive White House (Damn it!), and chief of staff ANDY CARD wants it to stay that way. Top-level staff members--most of whom lost their postelection break to the Florida fiasco--are being told they must take time off. Card needles his staff members daily, insisting they submit vacation schedules as proof that they are headed for the BarcaLounger. The forced march has turned some victims downright...