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...Howell became undisputed leader of the Branch Davidians in Waco, completing their transition from congregation to cult. He and a few select followers began recruiting new members on trips around the U.S., Britain and Australia. In 1990 he changed his name legally to Koresh, Hebrew for Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Israel after their captivity in Babylon. His apocalyptic theology converged with secular survivalism, with its programs for hunkering down amid stockpiles of food and ammo to endure a nuclear holocaust or social collapse...
...President and the Congress are built into our constitutional system. What isn't necessarily built in are the bitter arguments of recent years over the constitutional division of labor itself. Controversies over a wide range of issues -- independent-counsel prosecutions, Supreme Court nominees, funding of the Nicaraguan contras, the Persian Gulf War, the federal budget deficit -- all turned into fights about the separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches...
Despite the use of the word "coalition" and an occasional reference to the "world community," the intervention in the Persian Gulf was essentially our doing...
...professor speaks a number of languages, including English Hebrew, Armenian, Russian and Persian...
...Inaugural stand could have been tense. The Bushes and the Quayles were on the high ground, surrounded by the victors, every facial tic and gesture being beamed around the world. Bush searched for friends. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, such stalwarts through the Persian Gulf and now in Somalia and Iraq, were nearby, and he leaned far over to shake hands. Suddenly, from behind them, came the face and hand of Admiral William Crowe, the former Chairman, who had made a splashy stand for Clinton during the campaign. Warm shake. Nice words. Hostilities contained...