Word: dangers
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...adopt a new operating style tailored for the more collegial body. "The problem is, our best defense has always been partisanship, and you can't do that in the Senate," says a White House official. "You've got to be more flexible and more willing to bend." The danger here is that the longer things go on, the more uncertain the outlook is for Clinton, the bigger the chance for surprises. And the only kind of surprises you get in these circumstances are bad ones...
Americans were confused as to who their enemy was. They launched bombing raids to attack Iraq's Republican Guard [NATION, Dec. 28-Jan. 4] when the real danger to the U.S. was in the Republican Congress! PAUL KELLY Victoria...
...fact that she sends her dirty laundry home from Moscow for her mother to wash. Genius, you see, must be accommodated on many levels. This is because the romantic view of the creative life has long since taught us that prodigious talent is always delicately balanced, always in danger of paying a tragic price for its high-strung ways, always in need of indulgence...
...Iraq can import machinery to upgrade its oil production, which is forbidden under current sanctions," says Dowell. While France believes sanctions are ineffective and exacting a brutal toll on the Iraqi people, Washington sees them as essential to contain Saddam. "But without a comprehensive Iraq strategy, Washington faces the danger that the current impasse causes an informal collapse of sanctions," says Dowell. "That would be a significant erosion of U.S. global leadership...
...wish I could believe, as Jenny E. Heller seems to ("Ashamed to Be an American Abroad," Opinion, Jan. 6), that America has been "unwavering in the pursuit of the good and the just" over its history, but is only now, because of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, in danger of forever losing its moral authority over the world...