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Scrapbook Dual-plicity Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act make clear that the fiber-optic system Chinese technicians have been putting in place to upgrade Iraq's air defense...
...Obviously, culling research material is an essential part of the work Myrick is doing for the state...
...In particular, errant dogs and rabid dogs are increasingly numerous...
...Keating's marriage initiative, a senator charged Tuesday...
...Senior editor David Brooks's bestseller, Bobos in Paradise, is now out in paperback, from Touchstone, a bargain at $14...
...Easley has also accused Myrick of being a covert political strategist working to boost the prospects of Republican candidates...
...Life Imitates Parody GEORGE W BUSH COMPORTMENT INITIATIVE 5. Cell phones...
...According to NewsMax.com reporter Charles Smith, with Perry's explicit backing the sale was made to a Chinese company being run as a front by the military...
...Last week Easley called a press conference to mock expenses listed in her publicly filed billing records to the state...
...The fiercest opponent of the Keating marriage initiative isn't the culture of divorce and single parenting...
...We know the effort to weaken export controls is hugely popular with exporters...
...Indeed, it is just as rare to find The Scrap-book taking sides with the French...
...A recent People's Daily reported that in Paris, "Certain urban areas leave something to be desired when it comes to cleanliness...
...airmen flying over Iraq and find out how popular the bill is with them...
...But perhaps before he proceeds further, Gramm could take a poll of U.S...
...Other than that, her work has been confined to things like marketing and management consulting...
...The company's head was the wife of the Chinese military's research bureau chief and herself a general in China's army...
...But Keating's team aims to do more than talk up the benefits of marriage...
...So if you want to annoy any of your liberal friends, this is the perfect gift...
...And his side wins the debate in the book...
...Bush still wins...
...We'll Always Have Paris When a global terrorist asks Homer Simpson to choose a target, either France or Italy, and Homer chooses France, the terrorist quips, "Funny...
...Following harsh criticism for its human rights violations (including Mike Murphy's piece in the March 19 Weekly Standard), Beijing fired back by improbably slamming fellow contender Paris...
...We realize that it's inconceivable Scrapbook readers haven't already purchased at least one hardcover copy, but the paperback makes a nice gift for a friend who mysteriously failed to buy the book a few months ago, and no longer has his dot-com job...
...Obviously this does not apply to calls from your broker informing you of imminent declines in the value of your stock options...
...But despite the abundant evidence that countries like China and Iraq are routinely using "dual-use" technologies (technologies that can have both commercial and military purposes) to upgrade their military capabilities, there is increasing pressure from the business community in this country (and the members of Congress who listen to them) to eliminate or lighten export controls over these items...
...With the wheels greased, it's no surprise that AT&T apparently didn't even bother to ship the system to the front company, instead delivering it directly to a Chinese army unit...
...It's enough to make one wonder whether Easley believes reading books is a suspicious activity...
...You need a search warrant," Blankenhorn says, to find a politician with the courage to say government has a legitimate interest in promoting marriage...
...It consists of the major court cases from the five week Florida war, along with 62 of the best contemporaneous commentaries—including eight from The Weekly StanDARD...
...Working with nurses and social workers and clergy of all denominations, the marriage initiative plans to identify a significant population of unmarried live-ins with children who are open to the idea of marriage but do not pursue it...
...Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, 52 House members, including Dick Gephardt and Tom DeLay, are proposing a resolution condemning Beijing's application to host the 2008 games, saying that China's "extrajudicial killings, use of torture, forced confessions, arbitrary arrest and detention of prisoners" make it unworthy to play host to the games...
...and our own William Kristol...
...Let's just say, if The Scrapbook were giving Beijing PR advice on how to get the olympics, inviting comparisons of the treatment of dogs in France with their treatment in China would not make our list of helpful hints...
...The book, incidentally, was The Case for Marriage by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher...
...Also available for purchase in your local bookstore, in paperback too, from Brookings for a mere $15.95, is Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary, edited by E.J...
...You didn't do a very good job of telling them to turn them off...
...Dionne Jr...
...True, Mary Myrick was once a political consultant and most of her clients were Republicans...
...Associated Press, Tuesday, March 20 Paperback Alert...
...But since 1990, she has worked on only one campaign, in 1994, Rob Johnson's losing primary battle against Steve Largent...
...Let us hope the International olympic Committee gets the message...
...Nobody ever picks Italy...
...Umm...
...Last year, when Phil Gramm's Banking Committee made a similar effort to please business exporters, the chairmen (Warner, Helms, Shelby, Thompson, Kyl, and Roberts) of six of the Senate committees concerned with national security blocked it...
...As one AP story put it: "A consultant is billing taxpayers thousands of dollars to read books, view videos, and perform other questionable tasks tied to Gov...
...But that's where we find ourselves after a recent blowup over whether Paris or Beijing would be the better site for the 2008 Olympic Games...
...It is a state senator named Kevin Easley, who has opened a smear campaign against Mary Myrick, a private contractor working on the initiative...
...The latest such attempt comes from the Senate Banking Committee, which last week voted to send to the floor a Swiss cheese version of the Export Administration Act...
...Do not accept cell phone calls during meetings...
...If this plague isn't controlled, it could harm their olympics 2008 bid...
...WEEKLY STANDARD Parody, published Monday, March 19 RINGING CELL PHONE IRKS BUSH Add one to the list of things that annoy President Bush: cell phones ringing in the middle of his meetings...
...Guess what...
...The only dissent in the committee came from Richard Shelby of Alabama, the head of the Senate's intelligence committee—which gives you a clue about the weight given national security concerns in the bill...
...The initiative will promote pre-marital counseling, which many think is associated with a lower divorce rate...
...Clearly, what irks Kevin Easley is the possibility that Oklahoma's popular Republican governor may be on the verge of a major policy victory...
...Marriage Type Love In 1998, there were more divorces than marriages in 35 of Oklahoma's 77 counties...
...Bush called out to an aide by name and chastised him, saying, "Are you in charge of the cell phones...
...Scrapbook Dual-plicity Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act make clear that the fiber-optic system Chinese technicians have been putting in place to upgrade Iraq's air defense system, and about which the Bush administration has complained, in fact comprises American-made technology sold to China by AT&T in a mid-1990s deal promoted by then Clinton secretary of defense William Perry...
...As they spoke to reporters, Bush and [Ariel] Sharon were interrupted not once, but twice, by the singsong trill of cellular telephones...
...how to put this...
...When he became governor, Frank Keating vowed to reverse this tide...
...The governor's team has come up with what David Blankenhorn of the National Fatherhood Initiative says is the most comprehensive strategy for promoting marriage he has seen...
...Would that all state contractors had such good taste in policy literature...
...Such individuals will be apprised of classes, counseling, and other social services available to them should they want to get hitched...
Vol. 6 • April 2001 • No. 28
