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...senior Administration source tells TIME that Hillary Rodham Clinton will bow to public discomfort with her czar-like role in policy issues and play advocate instead. President Clinton and the first lady have talked at length about her role and how she is perceived: "They've concluded she is an enormous asset to him personally," says the source, but the American people "want her to be an advocate for causes she believes in, and not operationally in charge of things. They feel that having her running a piece of the action is hard for the public to understand." Instead...
...sense of discomfort stuck. ``I feel somehow as if we've sold out,'' said restaurant cook Guillermo Dehesa. So did the 74% of Mexico City residents who recently told a newspaper poll that they opposed accepting American aid. Nor did many Mexicans seem to want foreign investors back. ``Flight capital has turned into vampire capital that has severely bled our economy,'' said a statement from Mexico's manufacturing chamber of commerce. ``We must banish it and never depend on it again.'' Whatever impact the bailout finally has on Mexico, the era of fevered investment in emerging markets has cooled...
...Nicholas Turturro) is the most engaging of the guys who get together to play poker, get drunk and engage in the kind of good-natured, explosive joking familiar from other films. His behavior--erratic, violent, tinged with sexual aggression and defensiveness--adds the only true element of surprise and discomfort to the film...
...Security of Harvard first-years seems to be much more important than a half-hour of discomfort on a midsummer night," Hanselman said...
While the new crop of G.O.P. House members is still devoted to Gingrich, it can nonetheless be counted on to cause him discomfort in the months ahead. For their second hundred days in office, the freshmen are working on campaign- finance reform bills, an issue that can make more senior members of both parties squirm. ``That's going to cause some fuss among some of the people who are here, because they like things the way they are,'' says Representative Sue Myrick of North Carolina...