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When John McCain got the Senate to pass his campaign-finance reform bill last April, he seemed to have cleared the last high hurdle to getting it to George W. Bush's desk. The Senate had rejected the measure three times in four years. The House was friendlier, having passed...
It felt almost routine last Saturday when Vice President Dick Cheney entered George Washington University Hospital for treatment of an irregular heartbeat. This was, after all, the third time in seven months the Vice President had been hospitalized, however briefly, for his heart condition. There had been a moment of...
Over Father's Day weekend, Cheney strapped on a Holter monitor--basically a portable ECG machine--to produce a 34-hr.-long recording of his heartbeat. The monitor revealed four distinct episodes, each lasting just a second or two, in which the ventricles of his heart beat too fast. The...
The writ of the international tribunal does not extend beyond the sidewalk outside its chambers. Like many other international institutions, from the IMF to NATO, the tribunal is a subsidiary of Pax Americana. These institutions are granted more or less formal independence, but absent the U.S., they are powerless.
The patient has been identified only as a man in his 50s, a man who met all the FDA's qualifications for the procedure: He was at least 18 years old and of large enough build for his chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his...