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That's why one Clinton's budding Senate candidacy has already created some awkward moments for the other. Take the furor over his clemency offer to 16 members of the Puerto Rican group known as the FALN. Hillary has insisted that she had "no involvement in or prior knowledge of" her husband's decision. And on Saturday she even appeared to rebuke the President with a terse written statement urging him to withdraw the offer because the terrorists had not met Clinton's condition of renouncing violence. "It's been three weeks and their silence speaks volumes. I believe...
...furor comes at a time when Panama is trying to reinvent itself. While only 7% of the country's economy is dependent on the canal, nearly 100% of its self-image is wrapped up in the belief that it serves as one of the world's most important trade links. This Wednesday the country will swear in a new President, Mireya Moscoso, 53, whose overriding challenge is to try to turn a world-class location into a world-class country, technologically literate and future oriented. More ambitious Panamanians (and the country's well-educated middle class is full of them...
...robbers started breaking car windows with bricks and snatching handbags--a bluntly effective technique that was quickly picked up by imitators and came to be known as the "smash and grab." But copycat criminals are often lured by the sheer thrill of making headlines. They see America in a furor over Pepsi tampering or high school shootings, and regard it as a quick way to achieve significance. It is a power trip for the powerless, those who feel they have nothing to lose...
...their new nukes might be more mobile and harder to find. So in a nuclear war, the U.S. probably wouldn't be able to knock out as many Chinese missiles; of course, in nuclear war, it's hard to imagine that mattering all that much. Indeed, if the current furor has any useful purpose, it might be to remind U.S. weaponry hawks that very little of the feverish work that goes on in Los Alamos these days is actually improving America's ability to win a war. "I liken it to teenagers working on their cars," says Thompson...
Talk about spin doctors. The furor in India's Congress party over the foreign origins of its leader, Sonia Gandhi, may yet turn out to be an elaborate form of political inoculation. Mrs. Gandhi resigned as party leader Monday, after three senior leaders wrote a letter insisting that no foreign-born person should be allowed to be in charge of India. The action came after Congress's fiercest rival, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), made clear that it planned to make Mrs. Gandhi's Italian birth the centerpiece of its campaign in an election bereft of policy issues...