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...Arkansas hand. It was illuminating about the whole series of corner cuttings and subversions of the justice process that went on from there to the end of the Administration. We always had suspicions that Clinton was corrupt, but I have to say I was surprised by the extent, or the brazenness, of it. And I suspect that as history unfolds, we'll learn even more of the dirty linen...
...efficacy of this storyline is due, to a large extent, to the quality of the cast. On their own, Han and Bhan have firm grasp of the nuances of their characters. Han's Ming is often immature, occasionally even cruel, yet he can also be touchingly sensitive. Bhan's Oscar effectively evinces both his need to maintain propriety and his earnest desire for Ming's affection. Together, they make an incredible team...
...easier when the Croatian and Serbian nationalists in Bosnia were just puppets of their mother states, because then the international community was able to tackle the problem directly with Belgrade and Zagreb. But the Dayton Accord cut the bonds to a large extent between the mother states and ethnic communities in Bosnia. So that's created an irony now where Croatian and Serb nationalism in Bosnia is more vibrant than in Croatia or Serbia. Dayton is now a kind of iron lung for nationalism in Bosnia...
...contrast, "American campaigns focus on people rather than issues, and there is a lot of changing among parties," he said. "It doesn't happen to that extent in Germany because of strong loyalties to parties...
...General Augusto Pinochet. The papers demonstrate that the American government acted in full knowledge of the dictatorship's systematic and bloody abuse of human rights. The CIA was ordered by President Clinton to make the documentation available as part of a program to allow a public assessment of the "extent to which U.S. actions undercut the cause of democracy and human rights in Chile...