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Beasley acknowledges that Wheeler and Berman, who have refused to talk to the media, made it clear in their discussions that they wanted just one child. What's more, notes Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode, "theirs was a very extensive contract. There were 50 clauses providing for every contingency," including...
Come September, Rumsfeld will probably try to navigate some middle ground between the status-quo and force reduction, find some way to reduce the perceived strategic demands of the current world, and put out a plaintive recommendation for more troop and weapons-system cuts that Congress will declare dead before...
Because, those who do so would argue, it is only through violence that the rich world's leaders will be forced to address the fate of the poor and marginalized in whose name the protesters claim to speak. But this is false. At the G-8 meeting of 1998 in...
2. Inflation is still far, far away: "There has been little, if any, acceleration in the index of core personal consumption expenditure prices, which we consider to be a more reliable measure of inflation" (than the risen CPI number released just that morning). More bond-market jawboning - those long-term...
Why the change? The economic slowdown and Bush's tax cut have slashed revenue projections. Now the stage is set for fierce political battles over spending priorities. The Administration has already signaled that it may scale back the next round of G.O.P. tax cuts, which are now unlikely to include...