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...their causes, wherever they arose. For their promiscuous deployment of American force in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, she and her boss were much derided. Republicans thought the Clinton Administration frittered away American power in places that weren't worth it, ignoring matters of vital U.S. national interest in favor of a feel-good, bleeding-heart preoccupation with the suffering of those unfortunate to live in places of no consequence. In a biting criticism, Michael Mandelbaum of Johns Hopkins University in a 1996 article in Foreign Affairs dubbed the Clintonian strategy "foreign policy as social work." Such an approach, Mandelbaum...
...That number could triple by 2007, says Viren Mehta, principal at Mehta Partners, a global health-care investment group. Turning the corner on profits is more critical than ever, because large drug companies have tired of taking big risks in biotech and tend to shun early-stage research in favor of safer investments in drugs near approval or already approved. Bristol-Myers Squibb made a disastrous $2 billion investment in 2001 in ImClone Systems, which suffered costly setbacks with its cancer drug Erbitux before that drug had a breakthrough this spring. With Big Pharma playing it safe, steady-earning biotech...
...never got the chance. Just before 1 a.m. last Tuesday, three U.S. attack helicopters swooped toward the house, where Mahmud had been staying for two days; the owner of the home, Kaffia Awad, told TIME that she had taken in Mahmud as a favor to a family friend, who initially did not reveal the guest's true identity. According to Awad, Mahmud's brother, father and son visited him at the house on Monday afternoon. Hours later, the Americans, who had been receiving intelligence on Mahmud's movements for weeks, moved in with a force of 30 soldiers, including special...
...Deng Xiaoping stumbled in both 1979 (crushing the Democracy Wall movement) and 1989 (the Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another litmus test is the Party's relationship with the media. Now that public opinion has swung in Hu's favor, he could consolidate his power by loosening the censor's steely grip. This could give him leverage to fight bureaucratic resistance to needed institutional reforms. The option is there, but Hu hasn't taken...
...French public. The relationship should be even better this year. A French court's two-year investigation of drugs in cycling ended last September without any evidence that Armstrong has taken banned substances. And Armstrong surprised many Europeans this winter when he told interviewers he was not in favor of an Iraq war. Such a public declaration - almost unheard of among elite U.S. athletes these days - is certain to improve his standing on the Continent. Also, Armstrong might get some real challenges on the road this year. Jan Ullrich, the German 1997 champion and four-time runner-up who missed...