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...direction by explaining, "A truly complex man, it would take years to fully understand him [Clinton]." The problem with understanding Clinton is that there isn't anything to understand--Clinton possesses no ideology, direction, or firm beliefs on any issues. Like a wet snake, if you tighten your grip on Slick Willie at any one point, he just pops out the other end. --Noble M. Hansen...
...face with Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of a very different Israeli government, and most onlookers hoped the magic of a handshake might cast another spell. In the closing moments outside the White House on Wednesday, Netanyahu grasped Arafat's hand and pumped it, adding his left hand atop the grip. Arafat joined in, leaning toward the Israeli, smiling broadly. It was symbolic. But was it significant? After that farewell, Arafat's hands were empty again...
...this mode Turow's usually sure hand loses some grip. It becomes clear that Sonny and Seth--she divorced, he unhappily married--will sooner or later revisit their pasts and collapse into bed together. What seems a little surprising is that he offers her a marijuana joint afterward and she tokes up. And neither of these two intensely self-absorbed people considers the moral implications of their behavior--i.e., that Sonny's duties as a judge involve handing out sentences for doing the very thing she and Seth are enjoying...
...patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused to accept a protest note last week. By Seoul's count, last week's episode, while the most dramatic in recent years...
...Liberal Democratic Party felt now represented its best chance to pick up seats in the 500-seat lower house. The dominant LDP holds 206 seats in the lower house and shares power with two other parties including, curiously enough, the socialists. Kunii says the LDP, which lost its monopolistic grip on power in the last election more than 3 years ago, would like to recapture a majority or negotiate a new coalition. "There is a new party forming called the Liberal Party of Japan and perhaps they would be a new coalition partner. Some of the members are former...