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Although it was meant for only one individual, it sent shivers down the spine of anyone watching his face...
Gibson explained that when he referred to his life as a "shit sandwich" during the address, he simply meant that "the more bread you have, the less shit you have...
...whom he will report." Next she launched something of a counterstrike at the Commerce Department, which had grabbed much of State's control over international trade and economic sanctions during the first term. Recruiting Commerce Under Secretary Stuart Eizenstat as her Under Secretary for Economic Affairs meant that he could stuff those issues in his briefcase and bring them back to State. Likewise, by tapping Thomas Pickering, considered the five-star general of the diplomatic corps, as her No. 3, she signaled that she would surround herself with high-powered people "to move the center of gravity on foreign affairs...
...guns if necessary. But her approach to using force has never been set in stone. She opposed the Gulf War and now says she was wrong. She pushed to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but has been sobered by that debacle. She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it. What's less clear is where the lessons of Munich next apply. "I would never recommend that the President of the U.S. use force lightly," she says...
...inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm, half snarl. "Striving for drollness, Schrader sometimes achieves a distancing effect instead," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Neither the comedy nor the melodrama is quite as compelling as it might be. But 'Touch' was never meant to be 'Get Shorty.' It is rather a wintry meditation on the difficulties of sustaining authentic faith in the age of telemortality. For that work, its cynicism, wry but not weary, is very effective...