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Clinton didn't want the "compromise," and he shouldn't have to spend tax dollars persuading the courts to uphold it. Don't ask, don't tell is Sam Nunn's policy--let him defend...
...young, attractive actor-singers give heartfelt performances nonetheless, never condescending to the characters but finding dignity in their primal passions. In particular, Willard White and Cynthia Haymon invest the title roles with wrenching believability. In Nunn's conception, the crippled beggar Porgy is less pathetic and helpless than in most productions, hobbling on crutches instead of pushing himself on a cart. At the end he flings away his crutches and, in search of his missing Bess, lurches off painfully, heroically into a blaze of backlighting. It's a dazzling final image, but one that also points up the drawback...
...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave strong support for sending 50,000 American troops to help enforce a hypothetical Bosnian peace agreement -- a mission he estimated would cost $4 billion in the first year. The next day, Senate Armed Services chairman and chronic Clinton second- guesser Sam Nunn was skeptical, saying the Administration needed to establish specifically "what our goals are" in Bosnia and "how we get out if the parties begin fighting again...
...middle-aged Democrat, rather than clearly old or new. Such artful ambivalence is often necessary in Washington, but Clinton's was on display all the time, and he gave both factions license to carp at him as inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun from whole cloth...
...aides went to Capitol Hill to begin explaining the difficult options the U.S. may soon face. General John Shalikashvili, the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that the Bosnian operation could cost the U.N. $4 billion its first year. Lawmakers, led by influential Senator Sam Nunn, expressed deep anxiety that the Administration had no exit strategy. "My big question will be not how do we go about it," Nunn told the New York Times, "but how do we get out if the parties begin fighting again...