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strange bedfellowStrange BedfellowPolitics and policy.1NA=1154&NC=1262&DI=4098&PS=58618&PI=7315StrangeBedfellowfalsefalsePoliticsspacernotembeddedstrange bedfellowBarak's Hard PlaceDavid PlotzWhy America should calm down about the new Israeli prime minister.noBarak's Hard PlaceBarak's Hard PlacenoWhat a difference a plane ride makes. The Israel I left on Sunday was a nation queasy about peace talks and anxious about its new prime minister, Ehud Barak. Barak's governing coalition was already squabbling viciously, a party allied with Barak had splintered and collapsed, the opposition had called for a no-confidence vote, West Bank and Golan settlers were readying PR campaigns against Barak's peace schemes, and my in-laws were shouting at the television every time Barak came on the screen: "He wants to give it all away!"truenotochyperlinkno199971630000AMFridayJulJuly37/16/1999 7:00:00 AM630676908000000000199971630000AMFridayJulJuly37/16/1999 7:00:00 AM630676908000000000strange bedfellow And So's Your Old ManDavid PlotzWhy isn't George W. more like his dad?no And So's Your Old Man And So's Your Old MannoStories about Republican President-designate George W. Bush invariably note that he has spent most of his life doing exactly what his father, former President George H.W. Bush, once did. This is not quite right. W. has spent most of his life doing exactly what his father did, but doing it worse. He is a chip off the old block, chipped.truenotochyperlinkno19997230000AMFridayJulJuly37/2/1999 7:00:00 AM63066481200000000019997230000AMFridayJulJuly37/2/1999 7:00:00 AM630664812000000000strange bedfellow Impeachment ReduxDavid PlotzFlytrap is forgotten but not gone.no Impeachment Redux Impeachment ReduxnoPop Quiz:truenotochyperlinkno199962533000AMFridayJunJune36/25/1999 7:30:00 AM630658782000000000199962530000AMFridayJunJune36/25/1999 7:00:00 AM630658764000000000strange bedfellow Kissinger's Comeback TourDavid PlotzOld foreign policy advisers don't even fade away.no Kissinger's Comeback Tour Kissinger's Comeback TournoHenry Kissinger, like an aging rock star who keeps squeezing one more year out of the same old hits, has embarked on yet another comeback tour. The former secretary of state has just released Years of Renewal, a 1,079-page behemoth about his service to President Ford. Meanwhile, Robert D. Kaplan has lionized Kissinger in this month's Atlantic. This tribute--a bow from the great pessimist of the '90s to the great pessimist of the '70s--revisits Kissinger's 1954 doctoral dissertation and finds it "brave," a persuasive account of why realism keeps the peace better than idealism. And Kissinger is popping up on TV screens with alarming frequency, delivering his gloomy assessments of the Kosovo bombing and the frost in U.S.-China relations.truenotochyperlinkno199961133000AMFridayJunJune36/11/1999 7:30:00 AM630646686000000000199961133000AMFridayJunJune36/11/1999 7:30:00 AM630646686000000000strange bedfellow The Cure for SinophobiaDavid PlotzJust follow these seven steps.no The Cure for Sinophobia The Cure for SinophobianoTrying to make sense of U.S.-China relations these days can reduce even the most resolute Sinologist to a blubbering wreck. At the moment, Washington and Beijing are pummeling each other over: the Chinese Embassy bombing, the Chinese espionage detailed in the Cox report, American technology export policies, the renewal of China's normal trade (formerly most favored nation) status, China's application to join the World Trade Organization, American support for Taiwanese democracy, American sympathy for the Dalai Lama, the burgeoning military alliance between the United States and Japan, China's friendship with North Korea, China's wavering endorsement of nuclear nonproliferation, China's persecution of democrats, China's persecution of Christians, and China's surging anti-Americanism.truenotochyperlinkno19996433000AMFridayJunJune36/4/1999 7:30:00 AM63064063800000000019996433000AMFridayJunJune36/4/1999 7:30:00 AM630640638000000000200311442602PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:26:02 PM631781583620000000200311442602PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:26:02 PM631781583620000000falsetruetruetruetruetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM63139043683000000020012161319PMThursdayFebFebruary182/1/2001 11:13:19 PM631166479990000000