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...speeches Sunday night, Sarkozy and Royal both opened their ranks to backers of vanquished candidates, suggesting the two weeks up to the May 6 final will doubtless be busy with closed-door bargaining with Bayrou. But even Bayrou voters seem torn on whom to support. "In terms of the method and manner she'd govern France, Sego is closest to Bayrou," comments Pascal Benazet, a 34-year-old financial marketing researcher at Bayrou's campaign headquarters after the first round results came in. "But in terms of economic policy, Sarkozy is closer to Bayrou." And like everyone else looking...
...Torn by tragedy and wilted under the unsparing klieg lights of the national and international media, Virginia Tech finally showed herself on a grassy hillside along the third base line of English Field. Hundreds of families, college students, and local little leaguers sat on blankets, ate hot dogs, drank Diet Coke, and cheered the Virginia Tech Hokies as they took on the University of Miami in a Friday night baseball game. It was the first sporting event since the Monday murders...
...Mothers torn from their children, babies crying, arbitrary checkpoints, heavily armed guards, abusive and supercilious bureaucrats, and futile pleas for reason—a third-world refugee camp...
...roots. President Bush’s pro-force policies can be traced back to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1790 recommended that the United States go to war with the Barbary pirates, and Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who dispatched Marines to protect Americans living in Beirut, which was war-torn even at the turn of the 20th century. Bush’s support of American businesses in the region even calls to mind the value Andrew Jackson placed on Middle Eastern trade...
Oren himself seems slightly torn as to whether or not his glass is half full in regards to American policy. Although his book shows that American policies and principles have been “cataclysmic,” he concludes that by “consistently upholding its principles, the United States might yet transform its vision of peaceful, fruitful relations with the Middle East from fantasy into reality.” Oren, however, gives no evidence to show that this transformation is any more realistic than Disney’s “Aladdin...