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...unwilling to compromise. It is defeated not on its merits or because of her stubbornness, she says, but because conservative thinker William Kristol convinces the Republicans that passing it would make the Democrats unbeatable in 1994. Al Gore is a nonperson in this book. Her long and bitter rivalry with the Vice President is not mentioned. Sadly, she gives no account of any serious policy fights with her husband. That might have been fun. Her close friend, the late Diane Blair, once told me about an invigorating, substantive screaming match between the Clintons, followed by an embarrassingly passionate reconciliation. There...
...Sharon last week signaled that he is willing, though some of his Cabinet members think he is just playing along for the sake of good relations with Washington. But Abbas, more commonly known as Abu Mazen, may emerge as the weak link. If so, blame Arafat. Said to be bitter that Abbas has ended his decades-long run as the unrivaled leader of the Palestinians, Arafat is working behind the scenes--with some success--to undermine the new Prime Minister...
SETTLED. AOL TIME WARNER'S LAWSUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT, with a cooperation agreement that ends a bitter rivalry between the companies. Microsoft will pay AOL $750 million to settle the antitrust suit brought by its Netscape unit and will grant AOL a seven-year license for use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser...
...going to pay for my kids’ therapy? Because I’d like to see it in writing tonight,” parent Mary Byrne said at one meeting. “I will fight you to the bitter end and then some...
...main reason large courses are large is that a lot of students want to take them, for sensible reasons including educational quality and appeal of the subject matter. Complaints about large courses because they are impersonal are much less bitter than complaints because students were unable to get into them. And what is wrong with Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice” being so much larger than Moral Reasoning 40: “Confucian Humanism”? The right response to the size of Justice is not to be embarrassed, but to be proud, and to hire more...