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...return now to our original objection-that peacekeeping is not in America’s “vital interest.” Because we do not accrue any economic or strategic advantage by peacekeeping, it is not worth spending billions of dollars and risking the lives of American boys and girls. We have no “interest” in such things...
...losers A plane chock-full of top-of-the-line intelligence gear remains in Chinese hands, and 24 U.S. personnel spent 11 days as unwilling "guests" of Beijing after being bumped in international airspace by a Chinese fighter. The crew may have destroyed many of the plane's most vital secrets, but its loss (though it may yet come back in Ziploc bags) was still a setback, and the military had little option but to sit on its hands while the diplomats crafted a humble not-quite-apology when the Pentagon was more inclined to believe the Chinese ought...
...going around the budget process. He should have an ally in JOHN MCCAIN, who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to eliminate these extra items that balloon government spending. Why are earmarks so hard to get rid of? Because one person's wasteful pork is another person's vital program. Bush is already being attacked for his plans to eliminate earmarks for programs that seek to prevent child abuse. McCain is all too familiar with such assaults. During last year's presidential primaries, he was accused of being against breast-cancer research because of an earmark he voted to eliminate...
...pulsating “Phat Planet” is a listenable, likable tune suffused with kinetic joy and drenched in brilliant shades of electronic tones, Mirwais’ own entry resembles nothing so much as a broken record, mindlessly churning out the same garbage ad nauseam. The vital energy is lacking, leaving nothing behind but a sparse wasteland of broken notes...
Great choreographers have a way of spreading their wings in middle age. When he was 44, George Balanchine launched the New York City Ballet; within a decade, he was the dominant force in American ballet, making his art form a vital part of the cultural landscape. Now, with the opening of his new dance center, Morris, the most prodigiously gifted choreographer of the post-Balanchine era, has a similarly secure institutional base from which to lead modern dance into the 21st century...