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George W. Bush is hungry to make a good impression this week on his first presidential tour of Europe, and no wonder. "This is the biggest trip of his life," an adviser says, his chance to look a Russian President in the eye, his chance to persuade the allies that...
Those concessions produced a softening on the European side. Even the perennial Yank-bashers in Paris are trying to play nice. "Bush came in with big theories," says a French diplomat, "but on all these questions the Administration has evolved." Yet Bush is hardly rolling over on all issues. In...
In remarkably candid summation, a senior White House official told the New York Times last week that "the common European perception (of President Bush) is of a shallow, arrogant, gun- loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon." On top of that, Bush arrives the day after the execution of Timothy...
Runup to the execution: A discomfited and slightly ridiculous solemnity overtook the anchors, as if they were trying to find the right face to put on things, the right tone under the circumstances (Funereal? Matter-of-fact? Huskily sympathetic? Sympathetic to whom, exactly?)
There are colder, calmer, more intelligent calculations to be made about what is gained and what is lost in a business like the execution of Timothy McVeigh. I think killing him gives us, on the whole, a loss. Killing him gave him power and attention he should have been denied...