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...servicemen and women presented an opportunity for Jiang to address his more pressing concerns. Suddenly, Beijing has initiative, and Washington looks uncomfortable. There is President Bush on TV addressing the Chinese to no visible effect. There are the Western TV cameras greedily gobbling up every bit of finger-wagging offered up by mid-level foreign ministry clerks in Beijing. For Jiang, it may have looked like payback time. An opportunity to back the U.S. away from some positions that are causing great discomfort for Jiang and his allies. An opportunity to ritually humiliate the Belgrade bombers, force them to lose...
...waited, proof arrives that those friendly pats on the butt between athletes can get completely out of hand. Australian rugby star John Hopoate got arm deep in trouble last week for conduct unbecoming anywhere outside a proctologist's office. Three fellow players complained that Hopoate, during matches, stuck his finger up their backsides. "At first I was very surprised," said accuser Wendell Sailor, who claimed he was "jabbed" by Hopoate last month. "He just stood there and smiled at me." The authorities barred Hopoate from competing in 12 upcoming championship matches. The guys in the scrum will be walking...
...Schröder's credo is "politics should be all about putting the finger on the sore spot," even if that means antagonizing your friends. Since the youngster from Berlin, like many of her party's rank and file, is an uncompromising conservationist and anti-militarist, the first target of her criticism has not been the political opposition but the top brass of her own party, whom she feels have betrayed the ideals of the past. "Green politics no longer has anything in common with the original platform," she complains...
...master of one-finger typing...
...that Bush is entirely wrong in the positions he has staked out. Nothing, in any case, is more satisfying to behold than the indignation of the Streisand Left when it has been given the finger. But it's not enough to be right, or to think you're right; Bush could be right about everything (he's not), and still fail...