Word: hatchet
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...peek at a man still grappling with his sister's dizzying fame. Ciccone calls the book a "catharsis," and given the hurt splashed across its pages, that's easy to believe. But it's hard to muster a ton of sympathy for a guy profiting handsomely from a hatchet job on his own sister - regardless of how miserably she may have treated...
Obama capped the week in Unity, N.H., his arm carefully touching the back of his erstwhile rival, Hillary Clinton, as they waved together to the crowd and the cameras in a smoothly choreographed hatchet-burying ceremony. Though Bill was still off sulking, the prospect of the Clinton machine buttressing Obama's army of supporters and donors made many a Republican swallow hard...
...China. As Lin Chong-pin, president of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies, puts it, the KMT "had no stage in Taiwan but found a stage in China." In 2005, then KMT chairman Lien Chan made a breakthrough visit to Beijing, during which he buried the hatchet with the party's communist foes. The DPP "perceives the mainland as a threat. We should and do," says Ma. However, he adds, "we also perceive the mainland as an opportunity...
...hand off the presidency one to another, the Clintons have now rotated the virtual vice presidency as well. Hillary's claim to be "ready to lead on Day One" rests on having served as de facto Veep when Bill was in office. Now it's his turn, wielding the hatchet in New Hampshire as he hacked away at the "fairy tale" that is Obama's candidacy and taking Hillary's place in South Carolina so she could focus on Super-Duper Tuesday contests. Some party elders were disturbed enough to tell him to knock it off. Some feminists wondered...
...faith, one ethnicity. (Clinton proposed "shared functional sovereignty" for the Old City.) Dividing Jerusalem, says Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer and expert on Jerusalem affairs, is "a political impossibility and a historical inevitability. It will take microsurgery, and I'm afraid the politicians will go at it with a hatchet...