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Forget the basketball game with inner-city kids; the irresistible news was that I had shed my Arkansas roots and populist politics for an expensive indulgence. A few days later, Shara called Madeleine Albright and rejected Barak’s offer, saying the Syrians would open negotiations on Lebanon only after the border demarcation was agreed upon. Senator Robert Byrd, who was handling the proposal, was adamant that if we didn’t bend, we could break the filibuster. Perhaps, as a democratically elected leader, he had to pay more attention to public opinion than Assad did, but Assad had his own political proble

Spending on “them” was bad; spending and tax cuts for “us” were good. The bad news was that the gas tax would promote less energy conservation than the BTU tax; the good news was that it would cost middle-class Americans less, only about $33 a year. Somewhat to my surprise, I got a grand reception. ed States could limit a sudden large increase in Chinese imports when it occurred for other than normal economic reasons.