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...Besides the bad timing of the move, the sale could be construed as giving Taiwan offensive capability0. In the past, we have sold only defensive weapons to Taiwan, but the submarines included in the proposed deal could be used for the purpose of attack. The Bush administration should tread lightly over this issue, understanding that Taiwan is too important to the Chinese for them to ignore any aggressive moves...
...Time reports, even many conservative consultants are shocked by Bush, though they are not complaining. But Bush’s stands have not just surpassed conservatives’ expectations, they have, in some cases, broken campaign pledges, and this won’t fly. Voters know that Candidate Bush tread softly on abortion and promised not to repeal certain environment measures. Now there’s liberty and arsenic...
...there is no logical justification for Mirwais’ almost obsessive repetition of the same, horrible samples. Skip this track. Your eardrums will thank you. “I Can’t Wait” is better, beginning with an interesting faux-oriental motif, and continuing on to tread more familiar pop rhythms. True to its title, it succeeds in conveying expectation and pregnant longing. As the track plays on, Mirwais adds further layers of nuance, utilizing scratches and other effects (including a poignant background vocal cry of “I can’t wait?...
...swindlers." To make matters worse, the Communist Party, which hates NTV, has now swung round to support it against the takeover, because one of the men Putin has put in charge is an American, Boris Jordan. It's like he was trying to see how many toes he could tread on simultaneously. The Kremlin has alienated a number of different constituencies in one, not very fell swoop...
...reaction revealed a trait Europeans have long considered a quintessentially American attribute: political naiveté. It seems pretty obvious now that a Texas oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge...