Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hadn't had much sleep) called the result a win: "Our willingness to strike produced the outcome we preferred." But he also made it clear that the U.S. would continue to watch Saddam. "This is not a question of faith," the President said. "This is a question of action...
...Saddam needed to rev diplomacy into high gear. His yes-but reply arrived in New York City just hours later, forcing the Pentagon to hit the hold button on its imminent air strike. Then Annan gave an early-morning "positive" appraisal to the letter, deflating the momentum for military action before Washington had time to react. "We did a remarkable job isolating Saddam, and the Secretary-General undermined that," lamented a U.S. official. "It was not helpful. And that's a massive understatement...
When Clinton pulls, however, it is Berger who moves into action. While media-savvy Madeleine Albright grabs most of the headlines for selling American foreign policy, Berger most often crafts it--and carries it out. Last month he waded deep into the Wye Plantation talks between Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu. In August he helped orchestrate a strike against Osama bin Laden. Says Energy Secretary Bill Richardson: "People don't realize how much he's increased the stature and scope of that...
Habibie seems unprepared to confront the chaos. In a halting speech in the Assembly, he regretted the deaths of student "victims of the reform process." He later ordered the military to take "firm" action against the protesters. Even if he survives till next year's elections, the ruling party will probably drop him as its presidential candidate, if he doesn't resign first...
...true O.G., an Original Gangsta. But he has always been too smart, too observant, to fall into the trap of being just a thug-life-living gangsta rapper. He's an actor: he co-starred in Boyz N the Hood, and he's set to start in the action movie Three Kings with George Clooney. And he's a social critic, attacking, in his lyrics, the penal system, politicians and sometimes America in general...