March 27, 2001. Bush eliminates ABA screening of judges, By Jennifer Mizzell. A banana-growing republic near the equator needs top caliber fatalist to guide it through minor teething stages to full democratic status. We didn't see, we didn't know , by Tanya Reinhart. The Palestinian people have many symbols, and one of them is Bir Zeit University near Ramallah - the secular intellectual center of the society.
China has our spy plane, and all of the sensitive equipment therein.
They have the 24-member crew, and according to media reports, they have thoroughly and forcefully examined all of the above. Chinese leaders are unlikely to do anything that furthers Mr. Bush's stature at the expense of their own, which means that the crew of the American spy plane will likely remain in Chinese custody for at least days, and at worst, months. And while they are loathe to acknowledge it, the Bush team knows full well that as the days become weeks, the detainees become hostages, and the American media is about as likely to let go of that kind of human drama as they are to take an objective look at the Clinton years. Worse, the United States finds itself arguing the absurd position that a plane designed to snoop on everything from phone calls to email messages, buzzing the Chinese coast at just 70 feet out, was doing something other than spying. China is likely doing the same to us, although we certainly would not tolerate the kind of eavesdropping, say, off the coast of California, which we apparently practice routinely in the China sea.