Word: pol
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That rejoinder was not only frivolous but shallow. After the early '60s, one reason why the U.N. was unable to intervene in African and Asian bloodbaths was the sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent...
UNLAWFUL ENTRY is a movie just waiting to be denounced by some presidential candidate. It's not completely anticop, but a desperate pol could read it that way. Rogue Los Angeles bluecoat Pete Davis (Ray Liotta) has some very weird ideas about protecting and serving Michael and Karen Carr (Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe). He comes to investigate a burglary at their house and stays to hit on her and harass him, after Michael sees through his bulletproof vest of politesse to the psychopath beneath. Liotta's chilly boyishness is hypnotic. Jonathan Kaplan's film is a little distant...
...pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something to do with her friend Stephen Cox, a respected novelist who set off some two years earlier, hoping to get into Cambodia and gather material for a play about Pol Pot. And it is she who finally decides to go to Cambodia herself to find out whether Stephen is alive or dead...
...suffered a relapse from lymphatic cancer as recently as 1987. Tsongas insisted that he had not misled the public last fall with stipulations of good health. "There was never a recurrence," he said, "in our minds." Maybe not, but coming from Tsongas, who sold himself as a straight-talking pol, the reversal will make it easier for Bill Clinton to pass him over as a running mate. Now there are doubts about Tsongas' credibility -- along with his health...
Ambitious? You bet. Still just a snot-nosed Rhodes Scholar, Clinton lost that election. But only by a few points. He's been moving up ever since, as perhaps the slickest pol the Democrats have offered since...