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...Soviet-era relationships from Baghdad to Havana, openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only days before the U.S. presidential election, Russia withdrew from an agreement with Washington to refrain from selling weapons to Iran. The U.S. has yet to react. And the Bush administration's vow to press ahead with National Missile Defense puts the U.S. and Russia on a collision course over strategic arms issues...
...Bush was finding it harder to pick someone to run the Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P.'s right wing began to whisper out loud that the one-time Army artilleryman was soft on defense. Now leading the short list is retired Indiana Senator Dan Coats, a former Senate aide to Dan Quayle, whose selection would make the conservatives happier...
...November, Lazio lost his bid for a New York state Senate seat to Sen. Hillary R. Clinton (D-N.Y.), after a long and frequently bitter campaign. He joined the race after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani withdrew from the contest...
Harriot Hunt, the first woman who attempted to enter Harvard, applied to the Medical School in 1847. Sarah Pellet, in 1849, was the first to apply to the College, but immediately withdrew her application when then Harvard President Jared Sparks admonished her for applying...
...what about the military ballots, rejected by the hundreds for technical reasons? That had been a p.r. disaster for Gore, but Democrats denied any sneaky campaign to disenfranchise soldiers. Many of the counties throwing out large numbers of absentee votes were controlled by Republicans. Republicans withdrew one lawsuit on Saturday after many of the counties voluntarily decided to reconsider the military ballots, but GOP lawyers turned up the heat later in the day by filing individual suits in at least five counties that continued to resist...