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On the LAT opinion page, Brookings Fellow Shibley Telhami presses the White House to announce a Clinton Doctrine asserting that the U.S. has "vital strategic" interests in Middle East peace.
Ageneration ago, economics textbooks used to dismiss the debt burden by asserting that we "owe it to ourselves," meaning that some of us (the taxpayers) owe it to others of us (the bondholders).
But Lower Canada’s pragmatic Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine accepted the British framework as a means of asserting the Québécois’ right to equal representation.
Thus, when Sullivan found me asserting what nearly any research professor of psychology could have told him--that not one distinctively Freudian concept or hypothesis has survived independent scrutiny--he gave a horrified glance at my chapter titles, abandoned Unauthorized Freud , and pronounced me insane.
Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."