Word: washingtonization
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William P. Bohlen '01, a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is spending his summer writing for the Washington bureau of the Chicago Tribune...
...sound, because the Palestinians have very little leverage and could therefore become obstinate if they feel steamrollered by Israel. "Reducing the American role gives Israel a natural advantage as the stronger party, and that makes the Palestinians edgy about letting the referee leave the ring," says Beyer. So while Washington will be happy to reduce its direct role in the peace process, it?s unlikely to let go entirely. But Barak?s strategy is premised on winning the trust of both Washington and the Palestinian leadership, and on that score he?s yet make a misstep...
...anyone anywhere in the world can attest to ? except quite possibly in Washington, where the current HMO debate is raging ? the best medical treatment isn?t worth anything if you can?t afford it. So it came as momentous news on Wednesday when a joint American-Ugandan research team announced a new, simple and inexpensive way to help prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus from pregnant mother to child. The new treatment uses the drug nevirapine, whose costs amounts to about $4, instead of the standard, short-course AZT regimen used in the Third World, whose costs total...
Just when you thought U.S.-China relations couldn?t get any worse, Taiwan?s President Lee Teng-hui is picking a fight with the mainland over what is perhaps the most fundamentally contentious issue between Beijing and Washington: the so-called "One China" policy. "One China" is the security blanket by which Taiwan, China and the U.S. have been getting along with each other since Nixon was out that way in 1972. In it, the communists in Beijing and the democratic nationalists in Taipei maintain the fiction that each is eventually going to rule the other, with...
...despite its mannerisms and one of those where-are-the-cops-when-you- need-them car chases through downtown Washington, Arlington Road comes to a conclusion as lugubrious as it is surprising. It really doesn't earn its messy, crudely ironic ending, however. The ability of terrorism to rend cruelly the vulnerable skin of our civility is its most commonly remarked-upon quality. But that does not mean it is as pervasive, intricately organized and irresistible as this breathlessly striving movie makes...