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Pentagon friends say Powell was initially "blown off course" by Bush's basic principle of anything-but-Clinton. "If Clinton was pushing hard for it," says J. Stapleton Roy, ambassador to China for Bush Sr., "their instinct was to pull way back." But every Administration learns--often the hard way--that foreign policy inevitably snaps back from campaign rhetoric to the well-plowed tracks of enduring interests. And it was Powell who bore the brunt of the President's education...
...profile of American college students has changed dramatically over the past 20 years as the proportion of high school graduates going to college has increased from 49% to 63%. There are more minority students, more first-generation students--and more students who lack basic skills. Far more students must take jobs to cover college costs. Add to all that the sudden freedom of college life, and the stage is set for emotional turmoil, binge drinking and academic failure...
...Patrol once - and that cements the ties to home, and probably the southward flow of household capital, too. Politically, the current immigration regime is perceived by Mexicans as brutal, inhumane and an assault on their dignity, and that compounds a profound sense of resentment south of the border. The basic message Fox brought to Washington was that his is a new Mexico, and it wants the trust and respect...
...Fundamentally, Israel's unity government is built on a basic consensus over forceful responses to Palestinian attacks. But day-to-day tactics do not a strategy make, and Sharon's strategic vision may alarm those Labor politicians who believe Israel's future depends on a comprehensive peace. Sharon considers that belief na?ve and dangerous, and has made no secret of the fact that the deals offered by Ehud Barak are null and void...
...heart transplant wasn't such a big thing surgically. The technique was a basic one. The point is that I was prepared to take the risk. My philosophy is that the biggest risk in life is not to take a risk. But the operation, and its significance as the first of its kind, took me into another world--not just professionally but personally and socially. I loved it. I love people, I love the female sex, and I like to enjoy life. I'm easy to party with. The professors in Europe couldn't understand me. I could...