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...crisis in 1986, domestic or foreign, will become inextricably tangled in the rising partisan rhetoric of a midterm election year. Much as Reagan wants the Republicans to retain control of the Senate, where they hold a 53-47 majority, as a counterweight to the Democrat-run House, he knows that doing so will be no easy task. Two-thirds of the 34 Senate seats at stake in 1986 are held by Republicans. In the House, the Democrats are expected to retain, and perhaps strengthen, their 253-182 advantage...
Amerine's war-hero status--he was a guest of honor at President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, although he ceded his position at Laura Bush's side to another survivor from his special-forces team--seems to give him license to act as a great counterweight to the misty-eyed patriotism of West Point. He was recruited to teach international relations--and the realities of war. "Major Amerine doesn't sugarcoat anything," says Cadet Jonathan Lum. "His basic lesson is, There's a percentage of you that will...
Before I leave you all to your bottomless pits of procrastination, the somber educational side of me feels it my duty to provide some links of more genuine value to adequately counterweight the drivel I’ve thus far laid down. The Harvard Library web site, geeky a suggestion as it may be, is actually a nice place to waste time—ProQuest Historical Newspapers can get you the complete content of a handful of widely syndicated newspapers, advertisements included, from any date back as far as the mid 19th century, and the Naxos Music Library...
...United States call all the shots. But the final draft, signed one year later by the heads of all 25 member states, seems meant for anything but a vision like that one. Instead, if it is allowed to take effect, it will gently wreck those high hopes for a counterweight of real significance to American supremacy...
...Public Diplomacy, Hughes is taking on the difficult task of selling the idea of the U.S. to the Muslim world. But the mere fact that Hughes and Rice will work just steps apart on the State Department's storied seventh floor will make that agency a newly formidable counterweight in policy debates. Meanwhile, the other burr in Powell's saddle, the Pentagon, is having at least as much trouble retaining its ideologues as retaining its infantry. The two top aides to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--Wolfowitz and policy chief Douglas Feith, who created a special intelligence office to iron...