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...gone further, the coalition would have fragmented and we wouldn't have the sanctions today." Finding Saddam wouldn't have been easy, says Norman Schwarzkopf, recalling that Panama's Manuel Noriega defied a manhunt for quite some time. "If we'd gone to Baghdad," says former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, "we'd probably still be in Iraq, responsible for the people and politics, owning the place like we now own Haiti...
...Civilization program in 1992. Many other schools are providing excellent core programs. I have visited a number of these. My first and perhaps most memorable such experience was to attend Harvard-trained Hardy Hansen's "The Classical Origins of Western Culture" class at Brooklyn College in 1991. When Lynne Cheney, then-chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, released her landmark 1989 booklet "50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students," the Brooklyn program was cited as exemplary...
Mindful of the clout of a movement that has gained effective control of the Republican Party organizations in as many as 18 states, Quayle, Gramm, Cheney and Alexander all showed up to assure the assembly that they and the coalition had much in common. Though Dole was a no-show -- campaign appearances for other Republicans, he said -- his wife Elizabeth spoke for him and, before the convention, hosted a coffee for coalition state leaders. Wilson, who is pro- choice on abortion, and Baker, who may or may not be a serious contender, were pointedly not invited...
...economic conservatives more concerned with tax cuts and smaller government than with abortion and school prayer. It's in that group that Gramm and Kemp feel most at home. The other, which includes centrist Republicans of the Gerald Ford and George Bush variety, is the camp from which Dole, Cheney, Baker and Alexander all spring...
...other major speaker at last week's convention, Dick Cheney, appears for now the least likely to succeed. As a former Defense Secretary and a respected leader in the House, Cheney positions himself as a conservative concerned about America's place in the world. But he has a history of heart trouble, and what may be more harmful to him as a candidate, a personal manner so colorless he can make Al Gore seem like Robin Williams...