Word: lukewarmness
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JAKARTA: How's Habibie doing? The new Indonesian president's cabinet appointments -- seen as the first test of Suharto's sucessor and his ability to survive -- drew a lukewarm response when they were unveiled here Friday morning. Out: Suharto golf buddy Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, as well as the former president's extremely unpopular daughter Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done...
...Issa says he opposes making the children of illegal immigrants leave school. Aides to his primary opponent, state treasurer Matt Fong, claim the antiimmigrant rhetoric surrounding Prop. 187 left their man "greatly disturbed." Advisers to Lungren admit that he backed 187 but stress that his endorsement was late and lukewarm. As for Wilson, he didn't even attend the G.O.P.'s state convention last February, and a party strategist calls the outgoing Governor's negative image among Latinos "a huge problem...
...Republicans are thinking hard about making education an attack point for the '98 congressional election and featuring taxpayer-funded vouchers as a centerpiece of their proposals. Conservatives want them for people of any income who would send their children to private schools. As it happens, that idea gets a lukewarm reaction from a lot of white suburbanites, the same people most likely to vote Republican. They tend to like their public schools, which are generally well funded and supported by lots of parental involvement. A plan to use their tax dollars to send somebody else's kid to somebody else...
...failed victory was by no means the result of a lukewarm effort. Harvard tallied over 20 shots on goal during the match--nine of which were taken in overtime...
...Throughout the book, he freely admits that he possesses neither the patience nor the desire to create three-dimensional characters. "If you create a character," he explained at the Brattle, "he's going to use up the whole book. You'll never get to talk." He attributes his historically lukewarm critical reception to this anti-character prejudice (and to his stubborn refusal to use semicolons). Basically, he doesn't care. He wants to talk, and he wants his voice to be heard...