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President Bush has sent to Congress his Budget for fiscal 2004 (starting in October), calling for $2.23 trillion in expenditures and a…
France has finished two rounds of voting for President, with Jacques Chirac elected to another term (five years this time). In the…
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By high noon September 11, 2001 it should have been obvious what this generation of Republicans–and more than a few Democrats–would do…
Most people believe that their own country is virtuous and that only others misbehave enough to qualify as international outlaws. But the…
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