Word: bashful
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...emotions," says Springer, "the rougher it's going to be . Maybe our show can help people learn to tolerate differences. And maybe we can learn that everybody is capable of pain." Phil Donahue, a 27-year veteran of the talk-show wars, doesn't want to bash the Ricki influence either (even though it has contributed to a decline in his ratings). "I do think there's an awful lot of heavy breathing out there on the part of the so-called mainstream media," he says. "What is all the hand wringing about? Yes, there is an entertainment feature...
Incoming foreign relations committee chairman Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) -- the subject of a recent firestorm over interviews he's given about President Clinton's performance -- today used his recent high media profile to bash the press. He may have been apologetic after his recent remark that President Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he visits North Carolina, but now that the smoke's cleared, he's blaming the media for the rhetorical debacle. "It was never a threat and everybody knew that," a reinvigorated Helms told reporters during a home state visit. He aimed his next shot...
...British and French soldiers in Bosnia tie the hands of their governments. Last week, when the U.S. wanted to bash the Serbs from the air hard enough to force them to reconsider an international partition plan that grants them 49% of Bosnia rather than the 70% they occupy, Paris and London said no. Reason: their blue helmets are spread thinly around the country and can be attacked or held captive by Serbs. "The U.N. troops," says Dominique Moisi of the French Institute of International Relations, "have become the Serbs' hostages while their governments have become hostage to the entire situation...
...respect as the Undergraduate program is between fall and spring. Not by the students, not by the upper administration. President Neil L. Rudenstine did not welcome us with a speech on the fundamentals of being a scholar. There were no a capella concerts. We had no ice cream bash...
...when a lineup of inspired nobodies stunned the powerhouse English squad, 1-0, in one of the sport's most notorious upsets. The victory over Colombia (following a tense tie with Switzerland) nearly ensures that the U.S. will advance to the second of five rounds in the 24-team bash. It also drew praise for the upstart Yanks from a skeptical world press; London's Daily Telegraph dubbed them "Team Miracle." Naturally, the spokesman for the U.S. eleven, Dean Linke, is even more enthusiastic: "We really are America's Dream Team of soccer...