Word: distractedness
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Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent...
On Tuesday night, Eden J. Riegel '02 was worried. It wasn't being away from home, an impending Expos assignment or roommate troubles that had the first-year distracted.
Even if staff members weren't so distracted, it would still be hard to put together a plausible strategy for dealing with Congress for the next six weeks, as both sides try to agree on how to spend about a trillion dollars next year. Clinton vowed that any budget surplus...
Republicans cleverly distracted attention from the Salon magazine article about Hyde by charging that it had been planted by the White House, as if stories magically appear on desktops courtesy of West Wing scribes. With poor Hyde "in play," as we pundits say to justify piling on, I called Sommer...
The more the sick nations grasp the failures of their own leaders, the more they long for some outsider to set things right. Fairly or not, the burden of leadership ultimately falls on the U.S. Clinton ought to be the reassurer of last resort, but he is distracted by the...