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...their situations are vastly different. Bush I's war had a finite end; Bush II constantly reminds us that the war against terror will last years. Bush I disdained politics; Bush II knows that politics infuses everything. Bush I raised taxes, appointed moderate judges and alienated his conservative base; Bush II has cut taxes, nominated conservative judges and tended his base on everything from abortion to the environment...
...YOUR BASE...
...else has your attention. When you call your bank to activate your credit card, you get put on hold and pummeled with ads for the bank and its marketing "partners," who know that you know that if you hang up, you lose your place in the telephonic queue. "The base appeal of this trend is that the audience can't opt out," says Dennis Roche, 37, U.S. president of Zoom Media, based in Montreal, which places ads in bathrooms...
...Then, on the second day of the three-day talks, Li, true to his script, informed Kelly that North Korea indeed possesses nuclear weapons, might well choose to export or "demonstrate" them and would base its decision on whether Washington meets a slew of demands, including lots more aid. Li added that the plutonium from the Yongbyon reactor?material that $400 million in U.S. heavy-fuel-oil payments was meant to keep "frozen"?was now almost completely reprocessed. North Korea then called off the third day of talks, explaining that the Americans "had nothing...
...board’s mission is “mainly just to increase the membership base, to get a strong membership base going,” Ogbara said...