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...with a rival nuclear power. But in a post-Cold War world in which, as President Bush insists, the primary threat to the U.S. comes from "rogue states" engaged in regional conflicts with Washington or its allies, it's hard to imagine why an enemy looking to land a weapon of mass destruction on U.S. soil would choose an ICBM as his delivery system...
...least we can give the living wage protesters this: if their sit-in pioneered the use of mildly coercive tactics to get attention, now such tactics seem the weapon of choice. Everyone, it seems, is grabbing the biggest bullhorn they can find to get their message...
...very complex relationship," admits a senior White House adviser. Bush's sterner remarks regarding China in the Rose Garden last Thursday--after the crew had been released--are closer to his true feelings about that country. But in his speech, he clearly exempted the use of trade as a weapon of retaliation. That's a disappointment to one audience the remarks were supposed to mollify: conservative anti-China hard-liners in the G.O.P., who had been publicly silent for the most part during the crisis but who were threatening to grow more vocal. Bush has still other options. Among them...
...That claim sounded eminently plausible last week, when police allegedly found a loaded Glock in the waistband of Jay-Z's bodyguard Hamza Hewitt after stopping a car containing the rapper, Hewitt and two other men. All four were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Jay-Z's lawyer stated that his client was not guilty, helpfully adding that "other celebrities have often used armed security guards." Jay-Z's arrest came shortly before he was due to appear in court to face charges that he stabbed a record exec and only weeks after Shyne...
...Economic aid has become the West's main weapon for influencing events in post-Milosevic Yugoslavia. Presumably that would create major obstacles to independence plans if the West chose to make it difficult for Djukanovic to break away...