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...essence of the draft proposal, allowing the Vatican and its supporters to file dissents, or try to find some consensus language that papers over the conflicts, which usually happens with U.N. documents. The need for consensus reduces action plans to pallid, inoffensive wish lists that quickly disappear into bureaucratic oblivion after the signing ceremonies. Such was the outcome of the Earth Summit that convened in Rio de Janeiro two years ago. But continued indecisiveness on the population issue may be a formula for disaster. Speaking in Washington recently, Nobel-laureate physicist Henry Kendall of M.I.T. observed...
Today's Congress is so fractious that little gets done without strong leadership. Time and again, Clinton has confronted large private interest groups when he could have stepped aside and let Congress temporize the issues into oblivion...
...process of deciding may have been tortuous, but we just can't disagree with the end result: Flynn will not run for governor of Massachusetts. As far as we're concerned Flynn couldn't have chosen better--we look forward to consigning him to the blissful oblivion that the Ambassador to the Vatican surely deserves...
With the declaration of emergency, De Klerk has put Buthelezi on the road to political oblivion. The Zulu leader cannot win if he openly defies the security forces, and his refusal to contest the elections hands the A.N.C. a victory, even in Natal, and a bigger majority nationally. When the new constitution goes into effect at the end of this month there will be no KwaZulu and no chief minister. Buthelezi may well end up with many angry supporters, but as a man without a country...
...trite as the plot is, the main characters rescue it from oblivion. The trenchcoat-and-sunglass-clad, play-it-by-the-book Doug Chesnic is perfect contrast to the odd but kind Tess Carlisle. Several political references also spice up the dull script. Some are to past administrations, like when Tess says that all Agnew and Johnson ever did was play golf: "If was a blessing for the country." Others allude to Bill and Hillary. When Tess watches old news clips about her husband, the audience learns her Clinton-like history relatively painlessly. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle met at Denison...