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...Learn to duck You've said some things you'd like to take back. Too late. So practice backpedaling. "Senator, you have to understand the context in which I referred to women as geishas...
...meantime, the ibis fluttered about Tiananmen Square this weekend, posing for pictures with gawking tourists on the vast plaza. He was later spotted nearby enjoying a helping of Peking Duck at a restaurant on Beijing's glamorous Wangfujing Street...
...years has given me the same unbridled, childlike joy as watching a cartoon. Clinton was our first cartoon President. He ran off cliffs, was crushed by anvils and flattened by turn-of-the-century trains. Yet moments later, we always saw him, just like Wile E. Coyote or Daffy Duck, completely reassembled and eagerly pursuing his next crazy scheme. Essentially, people love cartoon characters because they cannot be hurt. They defy the rules of Greek tragedy. Clinton, unlike Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson, was not undone by his flaws. Whenever the smoke cleared, Clinton remained standing, covered in soot...
...Bank and Gaza have left the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington traditionally relies to cajole Arafat into concessions facing mounting pressure from their own people to take a tougher stance. Nobody in the region is particularly bullish about the prospects of a peace deal concluded with a lame-duck U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister who, according to most estimates, is headed for an ignominious defeat when Israel goes to the polls a month from...
...entered the year as a survivor playing out the string in a lame-duck presidency. She entered the year as the wronged spouse of a cad. He exits the year as the proud spouse of a newly elected U.S. Senator from New York, of all places. She exits the year as the Republican Party's worst nightmare this side of a dimpled chad. What a turn of events! When Hillary Clinton first paid court to retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed...