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...public highlight of trip was Friday's speech before a group of students at Vietnam National University. The tableau showed the considerable historic and political distance the President traveled to get here. Clinton shared the stage with a large bust of "Uncle Ho" himself, Ho Chi Minh, and down one auditorium wall hung a banner (in Vietnamese) which spoke of the "wonderful Communist party's" support for the university. Clinton addressed head-on the issue of the "the conflict we call the Vietnam War and you call the American War." But ever the optimist, Clinton tried to put a positive...
...wasn't the side I was used to, and my time there taught me a lot about both politics and journalism. I had just assumed, for example, that I would be good at spinning journalists--after all, I was one of them. But I was a bust. My instinct was to give a direct answer to a direct question. Mistake. After one of the early debates, I was talking to a scrum of reporters and was asked about a certain line of attack by our rivals. "It's stupid," I said. And then quickly added, "That's off the record...
...wasn't the side I was used to, and my time there taught me a lot about both politics and journalism. I had just assumed, for example, that I would be good at spinning journalists - after all, I was one of them. But I was a bust. My instinct was to give a direct answer to a direct question. Mistake. After one of the early debates, I was talking to a scrum of reporters and was asked about a certain line of attack by our rivals. "It's stupid," I said. And then quickly added, "That's off the record...
...fabulous (ahem) sport if you like that sort of thing, but American baseball fans must surely admit that apart from a few stray Japanese and Cuban teams, baseball is something of a bust in export terms. So to drape the grandiose "World" in front of the word "Series" is a bit of a cheat. Up there with Ross Perot's pathetic use of the term "world-class" (whatever that meant) and the patronizing term "world music" - which loosely translated means anything not in English...
...When the training wheels off his bicycle abruptly fell off, the toddler fell to the ground, bust his head on the cement and exclaimed, "Damn, this bike is soooo jenky...