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“... from different departments. The chairman of the Task Force, North reveals, was the Vice-President, George Bush. North gives him the highest accolade. ‘He was,’ he concludes, ‘comfortable with covert operations.’ Soon after Buckley was kidnapped in 1984, this little group with Bush at its head and North as its ...”

“... government of the most powerful nation on earth might run on articulacy and grace under pressure (George W. Bush entered the White House during the show’s second season).A more serious problem with Luckhurst’s account concerns the crudity of meanings he attributes to the less appealing aspects of corridors. He is ...”

“... into the void and so on. Despite a few false notes (the tacky little flags on the bagpipes, and George W. Bush reciting from a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a mother who lost five sons in the Civil War, once again opportunistically figuring the deaths of unknowing civilians as military heroism), the opening ...”

“... evangelical Christians seemed more powerful than they had ever been. They had helped to re-elect George W. Bush in 2004, in spite of a rickety economy and the disastrous invasion of Iraq. They had waged a successful campaign in Washington to restrict access to late-term abortion. They had launched a series of ballot ...”

“... presidential campaign in 2000 cost Al Gore the White House and ushered in the calamitous reign of George W. Bush. The obsession with Nader is at first puzzling: blame for Bush’s ascendancy can be traced to many other sources. Gore’s campaign was timid and bungling, but in any case he ...”

“... strangers, and stayed within himself. He talked for something under half an hour, and what we heard was an attitude more than a programme. It was a bad time, he said. We had to get the country going in the right direction. The wars were taking a heavy toll and drawing us away from our responsibilities towards each ...”

“... This was a stupid line: nothing (certainly not a choreographed Convention) could have saved the Bush-Quayle ticket that year. But the Democratic Convention at Madison Square Garden had been a model of consensus and management and manipulation, so that the contrast was an effective one. In sum, the media put the Republicans on notice: have an innocuous ...”

“... Congress, between the federal government and the states, and between the individual and the state. We are reaching another crossroads. There hasn’t been a new appointment to the court since 1994, but this extraordinary period of stability is coming to an end. Eight of the nine justices are 65 or older, with the eldest well into his eighties. Chief Justice ...”

“... Hardly. This attack couldn’t have been planned in 24 hours, though the dark hints we’re always hearing that planning such terrorist coups de théâtre takes long months or even years, have to be nonsense, as though the length of time spent in silent preparation has somehow to be commensurate with the severity of the outcome. London might ...”

“... of cheap labour reinvented himself as a defender of the poor, he has become a fierce opponent of George W. Bush. In 2000, the year Bush first ran for president, Krugman became an op-ed columnist at the New York Times, and swiftly established himself as one of ...”

“... disclosed in her photos). Her retrospective at MoMA in New York (until 11 June) suggests how right we were – and how wrong. Even before her well-known Untitled Film Stills (none of which derives directly from actual movies), Sherman investigated the effects of gender expectations and fashion fantasies on young women: in one early sequence of images, her ...”

“... country’s role in the world, and so has had a considerable impact on the War on Terror. Both the Bush administration and most of the leadership of the Democratic Party have drawn almost precisely the wrong lessons from America’s experience during the Cold War; and semi-official chroniclers and celebrants like Gaddis must take some of the blame. Gaddis ...”

“... what the United States Ambassador to Iraq, Ms April Glaspie, told Saddam Hussein on 25 July last: We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late Sixties. The instruction we had during this period was that ...”

“... of the ‘axis of evil’. After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kim Jong Il speculated that George W. Bush would not have gone to war had Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear weapons. The North Korean dictator’s continued presence in Pyongyang suggests that he was right about this. Two years ago, North Korea renounced ...”

“... I was the president I would tell the Arabs to shove their oil and tell the Congress we will have rationing rather than submit.’ But he wasn’t the president, so he never had to consider what such a policy might do to his personal ratings.The real problem with Kissinger’s approach was not so much its arrogance as its fundamental ...”