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...there's no doubt that most Europeans are rooting for Kerry. "Mr. Kerry knows other parts of the world," says Brice Lalonde, a former French Environment Minister who is Kerry's cousin. "Bush does not care if people like or don't like America. Mr. Kerry's worldview is wider." Maybe so. But is Europe's view of Kerry an overeager fiction? What would President Kerry really mean for Europe? Richard Holbrooke, President Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. and an informal Kerry adviser, says Kerry "would make rebuilding our alliances with Europe his first priority." So the tone could...
...Asked if a President should be guided by his faith when making policy, 63% of Democrats say no while 70% of Republicans say yes. The gap would probably be even wider if it were not for those black voters who tend to be socially conservative, attend church regularly but nonetheless vote for Democrats...
...idea that many who have been "misled" onto the al-Qaeda path need to be brought back into the mainstream. Some have emphasized the need for strong intelligence to accurately pick off terrorists through targeted police work, while avoiding any kind of mass crackdown on some of the wider ideological base that shares al-Qaeda's outlook but may not be directly involved in violence - so as to avoid alienating this larger element and potentially provoking a civil war. Others say that while the security forces have shown considerable skill and courage in locating specific al-Qaeda cells, arresting more...
...blames the Khobar attack on foreign elements - "Zionists" being his rather bizarre choice - the coded message to the Saudi public is that the confrontation has no connection with the dynamics of Saudi society, and that the security forces are confining their crackdown to known criminals rather than the far wider element that may sympathize with the ideological outlook of the gunmen. Such mixed message inevitably impacts on the thinking of the Saudi security forces, and Western diplomats suggest there may even be a measure of sympathy for or collusion with the extremists among some security personnel...
...Thus each production might be a sweet secret shared by the 12,000 or so people who see it over its long weekend. But the Encores! people are not averse to making a commercial buck by fleshing out their shows for the wider Broadway audience. Perhaps once a season, talk surfaces of a possible transfer (for "Strike Up the Band," "Hair," "Carnival," none of which occurred). "Chicago" did make that move, in just six months in1996, to the joy and profit of all involved...