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...authority in Lebanon was underlined by the fact that it handed over members of Israel's proxy army to the Lebanese Army, rather than seek summary justice as many had feared. While its ideological orientation may suggest that Hezbollah would be tempted to fight on against the Israelis even though they've withdrawn, a number of factors militate against this: unlike in the south Lebanon occupation zone, fighting the Israelis on home ground is a suicide mission; provoking Israeli retribution after the withdrawal carries the danger of turning the Lebanese population against Hezbollah, and Syria is unlikely to tolerate actions...
...fact, Richards says Gilligan will be relocating permanently to NYU soon, though Gilligan says she has not relinquished her Harvard post and plans to work at both schools half-time next year...
...Congress's General Accounting Office managed to wheedle their way into 19 of the federal government?s most "secure" buildings and two high-traffic airports, leaving red-faced security officers spluttering in their wake. The men, who were clutching briefcases and even told guards that they were armed (though in actuality they were not), carried forged credentials from the New York Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and talked themselves through checkpoints without anyone raising a finger to search them...
Dirksen's oratory became, in the end, something of a mountebank performance. William F. Buckley Jr., on the other hand, though capable from time to time of the polysyllabic Dirksen purr, has used public speech for the most serious of intellectual purposes, as a sharply civilized weapon, an instrument of instruction and correction. This, when one is talking politics, is unusual. A protest without a program is mere sentimentality, as a political theorist wrote. Buckley's opinions have always proceeded not from emotion but from a structure of thought - agree with it or not. He appeals to the standard...
...Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. The message in the photo opportunity was unmistakable: I may not be able to name the president of Chechnya or the prime minister of India, but I have some of the best brains in foreign policy on tap. It did seem a little counterintuitive, though, to be lambasting Vice President Gore for "Cold War thinking" while rubbing shoulders with some of its most accomplished architects and repackaging President Reagan's missile defense policy. Then again, Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane long ago acknowledged that rather than seriously contemplating a viable defense system, his administration...