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A three-part series in The Washington Post last week, “The Commanders,” offered a fascinating behind-the-scenes portrait of NATO’s Kosovo campaign. It illustrates just how complicated, frustrating and tense things were among the generals themselves and between the generals and the political leadership of NATO’s 19 member countries. But it also offers some reassurance.

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Bill Bradley has surged in polls coming out of New Hampshire, drawing even with Vice President Al Gore. Mr. Bradley’s standing in national polls has also been on the rise. How much trouble is the vice president in?

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It is entirely rational for Republicans to be afraid of an independent Patrick J. Buchanan presidential bid as the Reform party candidate and for Democrats to find the prospect cheering. But what’s in it for Patrick J. Buchanan?

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The Washington Times

Writing in the current edition of the Weekly Standard, David Brooks posits that a new strain of conservative politics is emerging from the petri dish of the fight for the GOP nomination. In George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” and in John McCain’s robust call for Americans to recognize their country’s greatness, Mr. Brooks detects the birth of what he calls “one nation conservatism.” This GOP political program abandons the libertarian rhetoric of getting government off your back and instead supports a limited but activist government pursuing a conservative reform agenda that will benefit all Americans, especially the poor.

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