Word: albright
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After all, during the last such crisis, in February, Madeleine Albright gave her blessing to Annan to go to Baghdad and work out a phony deal that effectively disarmed the weapons inspectors in return for a few months' respite between crises...
...back in the Tomahawks. "They are arguing to take yes for an answer, and we're saying it's a fraudulent yes," said an American official. While the Pentagon told its senior officers to show up "bright and early" Sunday morning to prepare for an air assault, Clinton, Albright and Berger were telephoning leaders around the world to bring them back on board. "We'll be prepared to act alone if we have to," said a White House aide...
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...
...Sally Albright: So you are saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive...
...often a women's ideas can be obscured by comments about her hair style, the color of her suit, her figure and, most disturbingly, her degree of femininity--none of which are the subject of comment when male political leaders speak. When President Clinton first appointed Madeleine K. Albright secretary of state, the media was more interested in analyzing her "manly" style than her policies. Ally McBeal spends most of her time fretting over men and primping herself to look attractive, while male heroes of the Harrison Ford mold only have time to give their wives and girlfriends a peck...