Word: disavower
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MacKinnon insists she recognizes that representations are not literally the same as realities. "The book does not say that to talk about a thing is the same as doing the thing," she says. But she doesn't always resist the opportunity to court confusion between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing...
Former Drug Enforcement Administration chief Robert Bonner suggested two weeks ago on CBS's 60 Minutes that CIA agents might be criminally liable for failing to stop a Venezuelan official from running drugs to the U.S. CIA officials then tried to persuade the DEA to disavow Bonners remarks, but current DEA officials agree with him. The CIA pleaded that Congress might cut funding for the CIA's covert counternarcotics program, but this argument fell on deaf ears; where covert narcotics operations are concerned, the DEA calls the CIA "amateurs...
...client countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which must be able to count on Washington in a tight spot -- and an opening for those, like Saddam Hussein, who would love to make Clinton's life harder. Last week the appearance of disarray only heightened when Christopher had to disavow lunchtime remarks made to reporters by Under Secretary Peter Tarnoff, the State Department's chief operating officer. Tarnoff's principal sin appeared to be telling unpalatable truths: that the end of the cold war and economic troubles at home required a smaller world role for Washington, which would expect more from...
...near Annapolis, wrestled with their ABC's, Scott grappled with a bewildering attraction to men. "I thought it was a phase I'd grow out of," he recalls. As the years passed, Scott fought his feelings. He dated girls and even slept with a woman in an attempt to disavow his inclination. Though he says it was "torture" trying to be a heterosexual, Scott fought on, at one point coming "dangerously close to getting married." Finally, Scott gave up the battle. "A year ago," he says, "I pretty well concluded that I was gay." Like many other homosexuals, Scott hugged...
Perot vows to revitalize his United We Stand America, Inc. (membership: $15), in every neighborhood. But he was quick to disavow another campaign for the White House. If he had to run again, he reasoned, "I would feel that I personally failed." Remember that quote when he announces his candidacy three years from...