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...coarse--she's not one of those conservatives who won't say "f___" two or three times over dinner--she doesn't seem particularly uncomplicated. When I spoke with her friend Miguel Estrada, an attorney and onetime White House nominee for a judgeship (Estrada asked President Bush to withdraw his name in 2003 after a Democratic filibuster targeted Estrada's conservatism), he said Coulter's appeal 15 years ago, when they met, was "the same as it is today. She was lively and funny and engaging and boisterous and outrageous and a little bit of a polemicist ... Most...
...been limited to the former USSR; in the last three months, post-Saddam Iraq has held its first democratic elections, Palestinians have freely elected the moderate Mahmoud Abbas, demonstrators have caused the downfall of the Syrian puppet-government in Lebanon and created fierce pressure for Syria to withdraw its troops, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ruler for 24 years, has scheduled multiparty presidential elections for later this year, and even Saudi Arabia has held its first municipal elections. Around the world, people are casting off oppressive authoritarian regimes at an unprecedented rate. Could it be that the President Bush...
...face of the growing international outcry over South Africa's practices, the Botha government is also trying to present a conciliatory foreign policy. First, it announced last week that it would comply with a 14-month-old, U.S.-brokered agreement and withdraw its troops from Angola. Then, appearing before Parliament, Botha agreed to allow neighboring Namibia's internal political organizations, both black and white, to form an interim administration with a bill of rights and a constitutional court and council. Though not amounting to full self-government, that generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which...
...over these investments has pitted liberals against liberals, conservatives against conservatives and even South African blacks against South African blacks. At issue are two different forms of divestiture: forcing colleges and public bodies to sell their stock in companies that operate in South Africa, and forcing such companies to withdraw their investments from that country. The two ideas are allied but not quite the same, and different arguments apply to each...
...days after the University announced it would withdraw its investment from PetroChina, the Beijing-based oil company with ties to the Sudanese government, a major student group that sought to bring about the divestment is disbanding...