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...sure, Clinton, on his eight-day jaunt to South Korea, Japan and Russia, was also pursuing objectives that are valid from a purely foreign-policy standpoint. On the South Korean island of Cheju, he unfurled a proposal for a four-power conference (North and South Korea, the U.S. and China) to draft a peace treaty replacing the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. Whether or not such a conference ever begins, the mere proposal serves a number of purposes. It allays the perpetual South Korean fear that the U.S. will strike a deal with Pyongyang behind its back. Simultaneously...
...brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals that the defense team offered to have Simpson take...
Coloring In the Electoral Map. Clinton's choice last week for his first post--State of the Union jaunt, Kentucky, is a sign of his renewed electoral viability. A year ago, Kentucky's eight electoral votes seemed to go up in smoke after Clinton's proposal to restrict tobacco advertising. But a recent poll shows that Clinton now holds a 6-point lead over Dole in that tobacco-rich state...
CLINTON'S DIPLOMATIC JAUNT...
Riding the wave of confidence after last weekend's successful jaunt into Dixie, the Harvard men's soccer team will attempt to take charge of its Ivy League destiny in its Ivy opener against Columbia...