The most Mr Arafat can expect is the message that he reportedly received from America's secretary of state in December: keep talking to the Israelis, and keep the lid on trouble and turbulence in the West Bank and Gaza.
But if raising taxes on rich people is Mr Obama's only route to dealing with America's pensions problem, he will be far from an economic centrist.
He was America's richest man from 1989 to 1991, before losing the title to Bill Gates.
The oft-repeated claim that he does not believe in America's exceptionalism leans on selective quotation from a press conference in which he made it perfectly plain that he did.
Right after his election on March 13 as the church's first pope from Latin America, Francis made clear he would relish his pastoral role as the city's bishop.
While in New York previously, he specialized in tracking America's legal sector, from prosecution to litigation.
He emerges from these pages as Germany's equivalent of America's Thomas Jefferson or Britain's William Ewart Gladstone: a polymath of prodigious energy and formidable intellectual power.
And he laid down a series of goals: By 2035, he said 80% of America's electricity should come from clean energy sources.
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For the rest, he says, the benefits of switching from America's generally accepted accounting principles are minimal and will not justify the costs.
If Saddam pokes even half a finger in the world's eye, Mr Bush will deserve the Security Council's support when he resorts to war, especially from those members who have lately made such a song and dance about America's tendency to act alone.
Rightly, he has promised not to cut and run from America's responsibilities.
He asked for help from U.S. telephone companies in keeping America safe.
After all, it will fall to Mr. Bush from here on actually to achieve that which he has promised to do and that which he has made possible by exercising America's right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty -- namely, actually putting a missile defense in place.
All said, Mr Beinart has produced an original and ambitious study, even if the conclusion he derives from history's slippery lessons is somewhat commonplace: that America must continue to engage with the world but accept the limits of its power and concentrate on rebuilding the economy on which its strength has always rested.
He's been vindicated on everything from global warming to Iraq, to America's addiction to foreign oil.
However, the next day, under pressure from America's military commander in Haiti, he promised that his gunmen would disarm.
The horror Obama has instilled in America's friends and the contempt he has evoked from its enemies have not caused him to change course.
Dr Kitzhaber, a former emergency-room doctor, stands apart from most politicians in America's health debate: he accepts that resources are limited.
He wants the revenue from his proposed tax to clean up America's public squalor, which has bothered certain economists ever since J.
In fact, after the results came in on Tuesday night, there was Senator McCain saying that Senator Obama is guilty of eloquent but empty calls for change, suggesting that he would have America take a holiday from history and that he's not prepared because of lack of experience, not prepared to deal with world threats.
"I remember Steve very well from England's North America tour in 2001, " he said.
Ethnic-Albanian residents of Pristina, the provincial capital, fear that this will only harden the resolve of Serb soldiers and unleash more killing and would be dismayed by a comment this week from William Cohen, America's defence secretary, that he personally saw no need to send land forces to Kosovo.
Mr Khan has said he acted to deflect western attention from Pakistan's own nuclear programme (in 1990 America had cut off all military aid to Pakistan because of its then covert bomb-building) and, in the case of Libya and Iran, as a gesture of support for two fellow Muslim countries.
ABC's Good Morning America played a clip of Woodruff Monday recounting the advice he received from Jennings.
Much of his best-known work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal historian of America's troubles.
But the trouble for General Kayani, these days America's favourite Pakistani general, is that he led the ISI from 2004 to 2007, before becoming army chief.
Koch, a yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 1992, conceded that the wine he bought from the California businessman was not his first encounter with fakes.
He has long fought brilliantly as a field general in America's cultural wars, from hisDartmouth Reviewdays in the 1980s to his prescient early 1990s critiques of affirmative action.
He justified this on the grounds that America's hard-pressed steel industry needed protection from dumping and time to restructure.
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