Word: fiascos
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...know about encryption and price supports, dairy farming and the FBI." But the peculiar nature of the Clinton presidency quickly demanded another type of talent, something not mentioned in a typical job description. Podesta's own description of it was "Secretary of S___." First, there was the travel-office fiasco, in which he wrote a postmortem report that put an unwelcome focus on Hillary's role (and by some accounts, put him on her bad side for a while). He later made amends when he defended the First Lady on Whitewater and on her controversial investment in cattle futures...
Profiteers are sometimes inclined to invoke expost facto rationalizations for their selfish accumulation of inordinate wealth. They occasionally emphasize their desire to re-imagine selfishly procured wealth, upon their retirement, as wealth selflessly donated to charity. This ends-justify-the-means rationale is both a moral fiasco and a logical pretzelism. It feebly attempts to justify the convenient self-interestedness of a socially irresponsible "career" by miraculously spawning an altruistic intention to "direct funds toward" the world's betterment, after the fact. Why spend life canceling oneself out? Why imbue some corpulent, guilt-ridden check with the vicarious virtue that...
...actions of both President Clinton and Judge Starr are contemptible. It is apparent that the worst of the accusations that one side spins about the other are true. In order to end this political fiasco, we the people should demand the immediate resignation of these two poor excuses for public servants. BENJAMIN J. SCHERLAG Oklahoma City...
...nuclear nonproliferation. I'll leave with about 9,500-plus roll-call votes, and they represent the midstream majority. I'll regret not working on some specific legislation...I wish we could correct campaign finance as we tried to do last year, until they made it into a political fiasco, which I regret to this...
...this year's Tour de France wilts under a barrage of midnight drug raids and cycling teams' quitting in protest, TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton says, France's successful staging of the Coupe de Monde is saving the nation from cultural humiliation and putting the blame for the fiasco where it belongs: on the rotten state of international cycling. "The whole thing just stinks," he says. "The intense nationalism, the publicity and the big-money sponsors have pressed riders to achieve superhuman feats, and many have turned to performance-enhancing drugs...