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Sometimes it's striking how strength begets greater strength. One by one, George W. Bush is clearing away the obstacles to war, at home and overseas. His public campaign to make Saddam Hussein disarm or disappear is barely a month old, but already Bush has thrown war-averse Democrats on the defensive. He flew to New York City and smacked down the U.N. with his call to wake up or risk irrelevancy. And last week he unveiled his new national-security strategy, a long-range plan for the U.S. overseas, which argues that the strongest nation in the world...
...boss. Says Ed Gillespie, a G.O.P. strategist who worked with Rove on the Bush campaign: "If Karl said we should invade Iraq to help us in the November elections, he would have found himself sitting on his ass on Pennsylvania Avenue because the President would have thrown him out of the Oval Office...
...Along with Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines have enthusiastically thrown in their lot with America. Singapore has long been a vocal advocate for a strong U.S. presence in the region, which it feels promotes stability. Manila is an old ally of Washington's and has for decades been battling its own Muslim insurgencies. Malaysia does have a Muslim majority, like Indonesia, but the government has never hesitated to use its draconian powers to keep the wilder fringes of the Muslim community under control, an attitude that seems to have been reinforced since Sept. 11 by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...
...business. He listened to a fellow defendant parry questions about alleged bribes and Swiss bank accounts for about an hour. Francesco Cossiga, former President of the Republic and a sometime Berlusconi ally, said the rush to pass the change of venue law before the Milan verdicts are reached has "thrown a shadow'' over what otherwise would be a reasonable proposal to protect rights of the accused. Cossiga told TIME he believes Berlusconi and Previti should agree not to invoke the statute in their cases if the law is approved. Cossiga added that if ultimately found guilty, Berlusconi should resign. While...
Because the University is the directly injured party, student plaintiffs would have to prove they have legal standing to make a claim, and Fried said he thinks such a case would be thrown...