Word: excepts
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...Clinton Administration still lacks the ideas and consistency other countries are looking for, the Republican Congress is setting off even louder alarms. Freshmen legislators are so focused on their domestic agenda--the Contract with America has no foreign-policy provisions--that diplomacy has little value for them "except as a great place for drive-by shootings of the Clinton Administration," says a former Reagan Administration official. The new arrivals want to slash funding for the U.N. and cut the number of U.S. embassies abroad--some have talked about using the foreign-aid budget to build a big fence around...
...difficulty is that, except in extreme circumstances, the most potent mechanism to promote international order--armed force--is irrelevant to addressing the international issues Americans most worry about. Instead the U.S. and its allies must look after problem countries' internal health: to dry up the poverty that spawns drug growers, boat people and terrorists; to encourage clean and responsive governments capable of addressing grievances. What kind of U.S. foreign policy can foster such conditions? The tools Washington has inherited from the cold war, designed to defend territory and prop up clients, are certainly unsuited to the task...
...they wanted to know, Yigal has offered only intermittent cooperation aside from his confession, and others are not breaking down as hoped. The investigators have long experience successfully grilling Palestinians, but they cannot apply the same harsh psychological and physical methods to Israelis: the law forbids many such techniques except to prevent an imminent act of terror. Meanwhile, the milder pressures--sleep deprivation, no clean clothes, no visits with attorneys--have failed to elicit all the information police are seeking. Investigators, "are still in considerable darkness," says an intelliegence source...
...Except for gravy and pie crust, which take patience and practice, Thanksgiving dinner is as easy to make as it is to eat. You're a right-handed batter in a park that's 150 feet down the left-field line--it doesn't take a genius to poke...
...vote to pass Duehay's resolution was unanimous, except for the abstention of May or Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who said he had a conflict of interest because Johnson is his "spouse of 27 years." Reeves and Johnson are domestic partners...