Word: foreigner
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...complicated by the fact that the Russian government enjoys a virtual monopoly over mass media. The government has severely restricted live coverage of the events in Chechnya on national television, effectively keeping millions of Russians uninformed of catastrophic civilian casualties. More troublesome is that the Russian government has restricted foreign and independent news agencies' access to Chechnya as well. Most of the Russian government's claims about the Chechen conflict cannot be independently corroborated, meaning that the Russian people--and the world--are basing their opinions almost entirely on the Russian government's questionable and highly politicized accounts...
...unhappy dinner table on report-card night. Who was to blame? Republicans pointed fingers at the Clinton Administration, complaining that Democrats had once again underfunded defense. "Over the past several years, the readiness of the Army has been deteriorating as a result of insufficient funding and a foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas where we have no vital security interests," said Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee readiness panel. And there were dire warnings that America was not ready to fight. But, like so many things that emanate from...
...animaster's great coup may have been to impose his will--that the film not be cut--on Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax. Weinstein is notorious for his itch to trim foreign films to suit the faster American pulse; he reads a sonnet and dreams of a couplet. Says Weinstein: "It's a genius movie. Could it be streamlined? Yeah, and it could be more accessible as a result of cutting. But Miyazaki is like Kurosawa or Sergio Leone--one of the greats of international cinema. The very idea of cutting is anathema to a director of this importance...
George W. Bush, the man with the most suspect and maligned foreign policy background of all the major presidential candidates, managed to deliver his first foreign policy stump speech Friday without saying a whole lot. The governor presented a platform constructed of the broadest of planks, emphasizing principle over policy. Things he's for: "Peace, free trade, strong alliances and a strong military." Bush was critical of the Clinton administration's inconsistent record on China, and said his own policy would be forceful and consistent. The governor also wouldn't put U.S. troops under U.N. control and vowed...
...speech shouldn't have a major impact on Bush's comfortable lead within the Republican party. "It's standard bumper-sticker GOP orthodoxy," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. But it should help quiet criticism from the media that, when it comes to foreign policy, Bush the Younger is no, well, Bush the Elder. Where Bush's push for internationalism could hurt him is the general election, especially if Pat Buchanan snags the Reform party nomination, whence he could siphon off a large enough contingent of America-first devotees to split the GOP and leave the White House wide open...