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...examine Bill Clinton's stewardship. The main points of the early record--bobbing and weaving on China, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia--don't inspire confidence. Clinton's attention has been episodic and frequently prompted by domestic politics. Neither Secretary of State Warren Christopher nor National Security Advisor Anthony Lake convey to the country that they are firmly in command even as the President is busy elsewhere. All the same, Clinton's foreign policy deserves more respect than it usually receives. He normalized ties with Vietnam, pushed the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements through Congress, propped up the Middle East peace...
...scales to skin." The Glass Menagerie asks for light "such as El Greco's, where the figures are radiant in atmosphere that is relatively dusky." If demands like these normally would appear affected or ostentatious, Williams makes them look like the hospitable requests of a man desperate to convey his vision...
...RESTORE a frayed friendship is to pick a fight with a common enemy. When chief of staff Leon Panetta gathered 15 or so of the President's top advisers last week to plan their communications strategy, Topic A was to figure out what message Bill Clinton should convey if, as expected, the stalemate with Republicans over the budget leads to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government this Tuesday. A shutdown, precipitated in part by Clinton's refusal to accept Republican budget priorities, could be a good thing for the President, Panetta and others offered. Their reasoning: it would prove...
...conflicted jumble they undoubtedly were. "Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching," he said, attesting to the fact that to achieve peace, one must sometimes swallow hard. There was no pretense, no subterfuge, no attempt to convey any false emotion. It was, in short, a perfect expression of dugri, and it seems fitting that, as both a momentous event for Israel and a demonstration of the awkward, rough-hewn nobility that distinguished Rabin's life, it was the gesture that will also mark his place in history...
...also tries to convey the idea that these texts are "beautiful," he said, although "that's thought to be old-fashioned humanistic belleslettrism, saying that something is beautiful...