Word: pose
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Contemplating his own life in Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Random House; 568 pages; $25), Marlon Brando, aided by journalist Robert Lindsey, strikes a pose of injured innocence: he is a sweet-spirited, mischievous man- child who accidentally fell first into acting, then into fame and finally into self-contempt, and at 70 remains "an enigma to myself in a world that still bewilders me." That observation pretty well sums up the level of self- awareness (and self-revelation) he achieves in his book...
...annual World Competitiveness Report, pushing Japan from the top spot to No. 3. Singapore ranked second. The improved U.S. showing was attributed to the nation's recovering economy, but the study also warns that emerging countries such as Latin America's Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia could pose future threats...
...Whitewater affair (the Senate Banking Committee will open separate hearings a few days later). Several high Administration officials will probably face sharp questioning as to whether they have been telling the truth. And there could be some entertaining partisan wrangling in the House Committee between Republicans trying to pose argumentative questions and Democratic chairman Henry Gonzalez trying to gavel such queries into silence...
...current regime in Haiti does not pose even a potential threat to this country or its citizens. The U.S. does not have any economic or political interests within Haiti it self that are threatened...
What remains to be seen is whether the Palestinians can truly govern themselves. Working as a paramilitary directorate during the years of alternating terrorism and diplomatic talks was simple enough; creating a true representative government could pose real problems...