Word: diversionism
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For 15 months James Ostrowski, left, had a modest enough dream -- the gubernatorial nomination of New York's Libertarian Party. But last month something came between the Buffalo lawyer and his visions of matching wits with (or being ignored by) Mario Cuomo: a 900-lb., microphone-wielding gorilla named Howard...
All of this is especially surprising considering Watergate's negligible importance as an incident. A bungled burglary of Democratic party offices during an election Nixon would almost certainly have won anyway, Watergate didn't involve the covert diversion of government funds from one source to another, or the illegal sales...
President Clinton warned last year that "we will not allow the North Koreans to develop a nuclear weapon." That threat is easier made than implemented. The North Korean problem is a four-dimensional chess game where each major player -- the U.S., North and South Korea, and the IAEA -- fears the...
Thankfully, we get some diversion from this seemingly endless back-and-forth; however, it takes the form of a completely confusing kidnapping crisis, culminating in a fairly dramatic scene in which Doug finally gets to shoot a gun. Although this part of the plot has more action than the beginning...
Games like Assassin do help people to meet each other and provide harmless diversion. The University cannot stop students from buying toy guns.