Word: hilt
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...truth, the "mistake" to which Clinton alludes probably has more to do with the election than with foreign policy. A neck-and-neck electoral race in Florida has seen both the White House and the Bush campaign dutifully endorsing the embargo to the hilt, but few administration officials speaking off the record are prepared to defend its soundness as a policy, while most of the wise men of Republican administrations past assembled as foreign policy advisers by Governor Bush have called for a review of the embargo. The Clinton administration's previous moves toward relaxing the embargo were torpedoed...
...Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and an agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed back. Because the same religious passion that drives Israel's insistence that it be recognized as the sovereign power over...
...believes the Chechen war is a quagmire. Berezovsky may have backed Putin to the hilt in using his media outlets to spin the war as a vote-winner for candidate Putin, but he now believes Putin is pursuing a disastrous course by seeking to impose Moscow's rule on the Chechens. The tycoon now insists negotiation is the only solution, and that it's pointless to have Moscow talking to its own handpicked Chenchen puppets - negotiations have to be with those who are fighting...
...they will never have to pay the full bill; thanks to the tobacco interests in the Florida legislature, it's now illegal to bankrupt a company via punitive damages. And at this rate, that's exactly what this kind of settlement would do; big tobacco is mortgaged to the hilt, and the companies are already chained to a payment plan for the historic (and bank-breaking) agreement with various states' attorneys general...
Some contend that John Rocker's arguments in that fateful Sports Illustrated interview do not render him worthy of punishment. Famed conservative commentator Dennis Prager has defended Rocker to the hilt. In The Weekly Standard, Prager wrote that Rocker's disparaging remarks about Manhattan and its minority inhabitants "merit as little attention as comic books"--not the "hysteria" that the closing pitcher has received. On his talk show, Prager asserted that Rocker was simply exercising his freedom of speech and had never taken any action against the people who commute on the No. 7 subway train. Why shouldn...