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Critics said Clinton lacked the leadership George Bush showed in shepherding the country and its allies toward Desert Storm. But the situation in Bosnia is fundamentally different -- and President Bush, after all, was in no hurry to send American troops to Bosnia. As Clinton hesitated, lobbying American allies and mulling over his options, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emerged as a key player on Clinton's national security team. Last week, Powell reportedly remarked, "Boy, was the Gulf War easy compared to this." Consensus building is part of leadership. As the Pentagon plotted strikes from...
...thought and behavior and try to capture a graffiti artist who scrawls THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS on the same wall every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse named Tom in the American desert, then to what must be early 19th century Monticello, where Jefferson and John Adams jaw dispiritedly about a vast slave rebellion that has taken over Virginia...
...four leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium, a massive national series of antiwar protests. In 1986 he devised an eight- month march by more than a thousand people across the U.S. to promote nuclear disarmament; the organization went bankrupt just as the marchers reached the Mojave Desert. Mixner did not focus on gay rights until the advent of AIDS. He has lost 192 friends to the disease, including his business partner of 12 years, Peter Scott. Says Mixner: "Going on Nightline was easy - compared with burying Peter. Everything has a perspective...
...more will probably have casinos, in part because of a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized the right of Indian tribes to offer gambling games on their reservations. There are efforts to build casinos in downtown Detroit and Chicago, in pastoral New Hampshire and Maine, in the desert elegance of California's Palm Springs, at historic Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, and on the lakefront sites of abandoned steel mills in Gary, Indiana. Some entrepreneurs are even talking of the day when Americans will find video slot machines at every local bar or bet from their living rooms through...
This distinction allows us to protest Desert Storm, yet admire and respect Powell's successful efforts during...