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...Democratic National Committee's winter meeting afire, but the reaction of the party faithful to Dean was no different from the Republican faithful's wild enthusiasm for red-meat orators like Alan Keyes and Pat Buchanan in years past. Most Democrats do not have a death wish. Ever since the George McGovern disaster in 1972, the party has routinely chosen technocratic moderates as standard-bearers. This doesn't bode well for Dean, especially now that the war is over. He has been making some real Iraq-related blunders in recent weeks, saying of the removal of Saddam, "I suppose that...
...Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, because of its free-market ways and likely disdain for euro-zone norms. In this forest of difficulties, the euro at least has one unquestioned virtue. It gives Blair proof of the oldest adage of politics: be careful what you wish...
...petty, trivial and selfish one-upmanship her lawsuit reflects—particularly the fact that she is asking for money—turns my stomach and makes me wish she’d chosen Princeton...
...recent months, neighbors have tried to improve the historically difficult relations between the University and local residents and have agreed to negotiate with Harvard on a “wish list” of concessions they hope to receive in exchange for support of development projects...
...disarmament. Add to that the fact of ongoing Israeli security operations stoking popular outrage among Palestinians, and the fact that Abbas has no substantive political support base of his own, and the task before him appears Herculean. Then there's a certain Mr. Arafat, whom Washington is trying to wish away, but who remains more powerful than Mr. Abbas - and has considerable incentive to ensure that the prime minister fails, because the Israelis and Americans have made clear that success for Abbas equals oblivion for Arafat...