Word: imbroglio
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Bill Clinton's latest imbroglio carries a valuable lesson in self-government. This lesson speaks to the fundamental presumption of democratic self-government, that the people have wisdom and virtue enough to elect politicians wise and virtuous enough to rule. That presumption is at bottom a moral one because it presumes a moral people...
...counter. While other record stores have done the same to rap groups, this is a first for Virgin. Nutter thinks the company is overreacting. She told People that she's shoplifted many times before--the highlight of which was a very pretty dress. Still, she doesn't think this imbroglio is going to help get out the band's political message. "I don't know if we're doing that. We're just annoying people...
...peripheral imbroglio, the fact that the late Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence fabricated information about his past would never have been revealed [PUBLIC EYE, Dec. 22]. People can get away with telling stories because the recipients of these tales deceive themselves as much as the liars do. As head of an executive search firm, I find it necessary to warn candidates pointedly in my first meeting with them that I will verify all the claims they make about their credentials. Without this warning, some people would brazenly continue the interview process with little concern for accuracy. STANLEY HERZ Somers...
This time might be different, though the outcome of the present imbroglio matters primarily as a harbinger of the momentous battle looming on the horizon. The current, narrowly focused suit hinges on whether Explorer is already an "integrated" portion of Windows--in which case Microsoft has the right to force PC makers to include it--or remains an independent product piggybacking on Windows, which would leave Microsoft in violation of the '95 deal. "They've treated it as a separate product," says Netscape general counsel Roberta Katz. "They've advertised it separately; they've produced it separately; they've sold...
Despite the crisis with Jordan and Mossad's subsequent embarrassment, Netanyahu, says an official who dealt with him, was "the epitome of sangfroid" throughout the imbroglio. If the Prime Minister was unperturbed, it was because of his strong determination, which he has demonstrated from the beginning, to go his own way. That, however, is an increasingly lonely path...