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...sense, Pataki's smooth glide toward a third term represents a personal triumph: the obscure state senator from Peekskill rose to fame eight years ago by toppling the mercurial Mario Cuomo, thanks mainly to being so unlike him. Like the straight man in old screwball comedies, the man who made bland a brand owed his success to being unobjectionable; but he owes his survival, in a state with 5 Democrats for every 3 Republicans, to moving so far to the center that the center itself has moved. He gave the teachers a raise; he subsidized prescription drugs for seniors...
...work of the weaponsmakers in both countries may be more central to the outcome than in any previous conflict. In a battle between the two armed forces, the U.S. is plainly equipped to prevail. But to achieve its aim of pacifying Iraq once the fighting is done, America must triumph over Baghdad without thrashing the country--which is why hitting the right targets and little else is so important. For Iraq, given the depleted state of its military, the odds can be shifted in its favor only one way--by deploying weapons of mass destruction against invading U.S. troops...
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