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...support, save only from Moscow. He risked losing again if the runoff took place without him on Oct. 8, leaving Milosevic to claim a technical victory. But Kostunica grew visibly in stature as he stuck to his sense of peaceful mission. We can have, he said, "a nonviolent, wise, civilized, democratic revolution...
...rush to agreement was most visible in the first topic of the evening, foreign policy. It was wise of moderator Jim Lehrer to ask the candidates which recent U.S. military actions they supported, especially since so much of the campaign's foreign policy arguments have been on the abstract and philosophical level. However, the answers were not always illuminating, as Texas Gov. George W. Bush repeatedly praised the foreign policy decisions of the Clinton Administration. Bush noted his preference for using the military in war-fighting rather than "nation-building" activities and argued for a more narrow view of what...
...much so at times, as he fell back into a body language that suggested he might lean over and loose a stream of tobacco juice at any moment. In this respect, he may have been saved by the format too: Jim Lehrer, who ran a much tighter ship, rules-wise, than in the first debate, is not exactly a buddy-buddy moderator, which probably kept Bush from becoming overly laid-back...
...know this now not because I am so wise in the ways of matrimony but because I've been talking to Norman Epstein, a researcher at the University of Maryland who surveyed more than 1,000 married couples to try to understand why they fight. "Something trivial will set off a couple," he explains. "But underlying the fight is a more basic issue: whether the spouses hold the same standards for the relationship...
...even go so far as to drop out of the case entirely. Although the states that are parties to the suit would likely continue to fight, such actions would greatly reduce the monetary resources and manpower available to the prosecution. The new administration must, therefore, continue to steer the wise course mapped by current Justice Department officials...