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What Bosnia shows is not the inherent incompetence or uselessness of the U.N., but rather more like what happens when the rider gets off a tractor and leaves the machine to drive on its own: it goes around in circles. And the member states have not taken the opportunity to fit it with an auto-pilot. They have passed up several opportunities to grant the U.N. a real military capability, a reform that might have allowed it to actually do what should be done in Bosnia...
Fortunately, such anger and fear are rare on either side of the Rio Grande. Not only is Perot's warning about American jobs vanishing south with a "giant sucking sound" not coming true, but thousands of tractor-trailer rigs are rumbling through the border crossings -- carrying beer, heavy machinery, clothing, electronics. Eight months after NAFTA went into effect, trade is up, prices are down for consumers and no massive layoffs have occurred...
Though he likes to swim and is addicted to C-SPAN, Panetta stays close to his hardscrabble roots -- literally. He tries to get back to California twice a month, where his idea of relaxing is to climb onto his Ford tractor and work the ground on his family's 11-acre walnut ranch in the Carmel Valley. "He gets unspeakably cranky if he doesn't get back regularly," said an associate, who joked that aides have taken up inner-office collections for airfare when Panetta has been in Washington too long...
...lane residential street, and tractor trailers that come every day are killing it," Dooley said...
John C. Ausiello is a crimson staff writer. And if you think his views on the Winter Olympics are a little offbeat, you probably don't want to know how much he loves tractor pulls and professional wrestling...