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...suits the Machiavellian purposes of chief of staff Bob Alexander (played with joyously evil relish by Frank Langella). As his name suggests, he combines the less attractive traits of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig. He's been running Mitchell (whom Kline also plays), and he's not about to abandon power gracefully. Besides, this putz should be a pushover...
Clinton must abandon this thinking, and adopt instead an approach that is likely to advance America's interests. The best objection to "aggressive" trade policies is not that they may harm others (which they do) or that they undermine the multilateral process of trade liberalization that has served the world well for 40 years (which they also do); to emphasize such points can seem naive and unrealistic. The best objection is that such policies actually do the most harm, in the end, to the aggressor...
Robert Feldstein, projects the uncouth Frank with energy and enthusiasm--Feldstein's wholehearted abandon even becomes disturbing. His soliloquies of terror at the passage of time and his grandfather clock are particularly moving. But in his frenzy of action, Feldstein sometimes sacrifices his lines, and the significant climaxes of his dialogue are difficult to understand...
...since Inaugural Day, we have all learned that presidential will is not always enough. Perhaps we were naive to believe, for example, that the military would voluntarily abandon its bigotry simply because the Commander-in-Chief issued an executive order ending discrimination against gays and lesbians...
...unilateral use of force against the Serbs. Biden plans to tell the President that because U.N. resolutions permit "all necessary means" to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, the Serbian gunners who threaten aid convoys are fair targets for American bombs. Biden will also suggest that the U.S. should abandon the arms embargo against Bosnia, thus literally giving the Serbs' victims more of a fighting chance. As one member of Biden's staff who accompanied him on his trip put it, "We couldn't find a single Bosnian who, given a choice between U.N. forces remaining and lifting the arms embargo...