Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away the most popular politician in the country. If fighting in Chechnya breaks out again, warns Alexander Oslon, who polled for Yeltsin during the presidential campaign, Lebed's popularity could take on "legendary" proportions. At the very least, Oslon says, the infighting that has accompanied the Lebed affair will deepen public disillusionment in the political process...
There have been serious constitutional crises in previous administrations, [such as] Watergate.... [The] Iran-Contra affair was a serious constitutional breach. [This administration's] are hollow scandals of little consequence. Why has the press devoted more resources to these than, say, at the height of the health care debate, to health care? Whitewater is the phoniest of phonies. It has been protracted twice as long as Watergate. [From] the beginning of Watergate to [Nixon's] resignation was half the time of Whitewater so far, in which...nothing has been proved. In fact, according to the most comprehensive investigations...
...intrigues, but the relative insignificance of, say, Dickmorrisgate, seems to substantiate the claim that Americans care less and less about scandals that have no effect on politics. American culture is one that thrives on sleaze in all forms. The success of such shows as "Hard Copy" and "A Current Affair" is testament to America's affinity for tender half-truths. But these shows' half-baked scandals are not on a par with Whitewater...
...ambitious production of a classic, like the Mainstage "Three Sisters" of 1995 and (presumably) the forthcoming "Coriolanus"; the hip contemporary play, like last year's "Fat Men in Skirts" or 1994's "Six Degrees of Separation"; and the musical, which can range from a low-budget house affair to Sondheim overdoses of "A Little Night Music" and "Company...
...Iraqi bombing and invasion of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan is not an internal Iraqi affair. Erbil is situated inside the safe-haven zone imposed by the U.N. in 1991. Since the invasion of Kuwait, the Arab world has expelled Saddam and his regime. Since then, he has broken every law in the book. The Arab countries, in objecting to the American air strike, give the impression that they didn't like President Clinton's support of the Kurds. But why didn't they object to the air strikes on southern Iraq in 1993 and 1994? Why didn...