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...Those of us in other parts of the world are left only with the perception of a trigger-happy U.S. Despite a plausible semblance of unity, Western Europe and Japan are at a loss about how to react. The reference to the U.N. resolutions is mere rhetoric, a fig leaf to cover what lies behind election politics. This charade demonstrates that Clinton is not a true world leader. YASUO HORI Matsudamachi, Japan
...Phillips Brooks House fairs and sign-ups for the many opportunities for community service that the college has to offer. One needn't be a first-year to undertake these options for the coming year. We're all starting off fresh, inventing ourselves anew, turning over a new leaf...
...powerful bomb that may have found its way onto the plane or of people yet unknown who may have launched a small missile against the airliner from a vantage point as yet undetected. The stories were cautious, with the ifs loudly iterated and "theory" worn like a reluctant fig leaf. Yet by Friday, there were indications that the Federal Government was weighing a decision to order stringent security directives not before seen in peacetime to all U.S. airlines, which would leave little doubt that the fall of TWA Flight 800 was deliberate terror. If the plane was sabotaged, the disaster...
...critic Howard Kurtz says the overall coverage of Aldrich marks the collapse of journalistic standards as we know them: "We've gone from needing two sources to needing no sources to someone being able to make something up and get us to report it. The hardcover is the fig leaf that allows the press to publish what they couldn't otherwise." While Brinkley's This Week shot down some of Aldrich's statements, it had to give the book life in order to do so--and then failed to kill it off. The day after the show, there were...
...White House. When Vincent Foster committed suicide, in July 1993, he accompanied associate counsel William Kennedy III to identify the body. The next morning, two Secret Service agents said, they saw Livingstone leaving the elevator that connected to Foster's office suite with a briefcase and box of loose-leaf binders (Livingstone denied removing documents from Foster's office). Because of these provocative appearances, Livingstone was deposed by various investigatory panels, including the Senate Whitewater Committee, and ran up enormous legal bills. (He has started a defense fund.) The investigators focused on better-connected figures after concluding, in the words...