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This rhetorically extravagant message of a country hijacked by nameless forces of evil ("special interests") may seem far-fetched, especially in a time of such happiness and plenty. McCain's genius has been to understand that it is precisely this affluence and good cheer that make genuine ideas irrelevant. As...
Bradley was not always there in the clinch. He missed the crucial series of votes in 1985, though the margins were such that his votes would not have made a difference in the outcome. But in 1990, Bradley and Gore were on opposite sides of an amendment that would have...
This runs very deep in McCain. He will nearly always side openly with a person who is about to be stomped by a crowd. I've seen this over and over again in his instinctive reaction to situations. I was standing with him in a parking lot late one night...
And a sign of a quiet revolution under way in Jordan. The new King, who ascended the throne after his father's death last year, is intent on doing the nation's business in unusual ways. Hence the getups. Ten times in disguise--ranging from a TV reporter to a...
The new emphasis comes not a moment too soon: well over half of Jordanians are under age 16, and will soon be demanding a slice of the economic cake. To give it to them, Abdullah has devised a plan centered on a privatization effort that is almost unprecedented in the...