Word: dealing
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Here's hoping Clinton returns to earth. All the visionary talk in the world won't count for much unless he nails it down with some real leadership, the kind that springs not from rhetoric but from old-fashioned deal making and what Teddy Roosevelt called the willingness "to dare mighty things." Clinton last week expressed the view that "great Presidents don't do great things. Great Presidents get a lot of other people to do great things." This is a tautology, since getting others to do great things--persuading Congress to pass campaign-finance reform, say--is itself doing...
...Florida couple, who insisted on giving him a package in person. House Republican leaders say they have learned that McDermott discussed the conference call with special counsel James Cole before any news of the call appeared in public. They insisted that the call had not violated any deal and quickly went on the offensive, charging that intentionally intercepting and taping private phone conversations, or circulating tapes or transcripts of them, are illegal. And for a member of the ethics committee to engage in such chicanery amid a pending investigation, they said, would be especially unsavory. McDermott, through a spokesman, declined...
...this week, jurors will ponder what has been presented to them. Under gentle questioning from his attorney, Robert Baker, Simpson constructed the architecture of his life, recounting his impoverished childhood in San Francisco and detailing his development as an athlete throughout high school and college. Baker spent a good deal of time prompting Simpson to list his athletic achievements and awards, from the Heisman trophy in 1967 to his status as perhaps the game's reigning star when he finally resigned from football...
...great deal of that firepower came from Feaster, the junior forward who scored a career-high 35 points and added 14 rebounds...
...percent of the Biblical city of Hebron within days. Israel also agreed to roll back its presence in the West Bank in three stages - beginning in six weeks and ending in August 1998. Ross said the agreement was "fully consistent" with the 1995 Israel-Palestinian agreement, but the part dealing with Hebron was more detailed. In Washington, President Clinton heartily endorsed the deal. The agreement "brings us another step closer to a lasting, secure Middle East peace," he said. "Once again, the forces of peace have prevailed over a history of division." But the thorniest issues still lie ahead: concurrent...