Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such approaches are risky; whether they are worth taking depends on what the West deems its interest in the former Yugoslavia to be. In the realpolitik calculus of international affairs, Bosnia does not fit into any of the categories that demand intervention. No communist dominoes are at stake. Human-rights violations are gruesome but are not something for which any country wants to sacrifice its own soldiers. It is true that Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics are now independent countries, but Europe and the U.S. tend to regard Serbian aggression against them as internal ethnic strife...
...doctor last week reiterated that his health is excellent, despite his bout last year with Graves' disease and his vomiting and collapse, caused by intestinal flu, at a state dinner in Tokyo last January. Reporters and staffers who try to keep pace with Bush find him exceptionally fit and energetic for a man of 68. Still, as a Bush friend observed, "he hasn't had much fun in this job lately, and that shows on his face...
...MEET CHELSEA CLINTON. She's cute--in that awkward 12-year-old way. But the emphasis is on awkward. Her dresses don't fit her quite right. She inherited her father's hair. She looks uncomfortable in the limelight...
Unfortunately, the creed of amateurism ill fit a world in which competition was being democratized, the popularity of sport was burgeoning, and standards of competition were rising. Nonetheless, the rules were followed strictly, even vindictively, and never more so than in the case of Jim Thorpe, U.S. winner of both the decathlon and the now discontinued pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. The following year, it was discovered that Thorpe had received $25 a week to play baseball during the summers of 1909 and '10 -- a common practice for college athletes, many of whom used aliases. Thorpe was stripped...
...anyone took the trouble to try and understand her remarks and her rage, they'd realize Clinton's target wasn't cookie-baking moms but the people who wouldn't accept a First Lady unless she fit that image. Hillary Clinton sees no reason to apologize for her role as a political partner and adviser to her husband. It's a shame she has to defend herself...