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...doctrine articulated by Colin Powell, his favored future secretary of state: military interventions "need to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear and the exit strategy obvious." Local conflicts are better left to regional powers. Bush considers the Clinton-Gore deployments in Haiti and Somalia ill-advised attempts at "nation building" and says the bombing campaigns over Kosovo and Iraq were halfhearted. Though Bush does not advocate isolation from the world's conflicts - and stresses America's commitments to its European and Asian allies - his philosophy suggests he would be, at best, a reluctant interventionist...
...start with the unthinkable but quite plausible: The Yankees lose. It will be the end of the era, and it will have come at the hands of the Mets. Yankees fans generally don't stoop to having much ill will for their younger siblings in Queens - they're kind of cute, the way they only win every once in a great while. But that doesn't mean they're allowed to supplant us. They'll be yapping about it all winter, like little dogs, and probably for years to come. And we probably won't get a rematch for another...
...granted the "withholding of removal" to a Chinese paranoid schizophrenic whose circumstances echo De Santiago's. He lost his residency as a result of a felony conviction. The judge found it likely that the 42-year-old man would suffer persecution in China, which advocates sterilization for the mentally ill, and agreed that the man had proved his membership in a "particular social group." A California judge issued a similar ruling in De Santiago's case, but the executive office for immigration review has filed a notice of appeal, writing that the judge "erred in finding that those individuals...
...children's problems. A bad marriage will stay a bad marriage whether it continues or ends in divorce. What is most important is that parents act like adults and get along as mother and father forever, even if they are no longer husband and wife. NATALIE CARKNER Cary, Ill...
Children may also react negatively if the room remains but has been stripped of their presence. Two years after Dena Cowan Klapperich, 37, a clinical psychologist in Lindenhurst, Ill., had left home to live with her boyfriend, her mother, U.C. Berkeley psychologist Carolyn Cowan, converted Dena's old room to an office. "The first time she came over after that, she couldn't walk in there," Cowan recalls...