Word: crowbarred
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...quid pro quo may turn out to be legislation to boost Taiwan's defenses - only 50 or 60 House Democrats are currently on board. In a speech at Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, President Clinton appealed to Democratic skeptics by painting WTO membership as a kind of liberalizing crowbar that would force open China's closed society. But the fact that Beijing's human rights record actually deteriorated over the six years since the President unlinked trade issues from human rights may reinforce skepticism. In the end, though, China's human rights record may not be labor's primary concern - like...
...need no stinkin' Gillooly! Former ice princess TONYA HARDING, 29, was arrested last week after allegedly beating the pulp out of live-in boyfriend Darren Silver--and she didn't need a crowbar or an accomplice to do the job. According to Silver, the couple had just returned from an excursion to a video-poker arcade when Harding attacked, "hooking me like Mike Tyson." Silver attempted to flee on his motorcycle, only to run face first into a hubcap Harding had hurled, Frisbee-style, in his direction. Police on the scene reported that both Harding and Silver were intoxicated...