Word: proverbes
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...foul." In the instance of Sales' new record, her coach may have been right that no harm was done and a greater good accomplished. The jury (figuratively for Vaughn and literally for the President) is still out on the other two. I don't know what the antithetical proverb to "no harm, no foul" is, or even whether one exists. In these cases, maybe the closest we can come is "I don't know whether to laugh or cry at once...
...Franklin might not condone this butchering of a proverb, but for Harvard field hockey coach Sue Caples, it's the way to win against No. 15 Boston College today...
...Cambodian proverb says: If you are strong, make yourself feared; if you are weak, make yourself pitied. Cambodians are deeply insecure, aware that the proud temple-building empire of Angkor, which covered much of Southeast Asia in the 12th century, has shrunk to the small area of today's Cambodia. This insecurity has prompted much irrational aggression. In 1978 Pol Pot launched attacks on Vietnam, bragging that one Cambodian soldier could kill eight Vietnamese. It is a behavior pattern that is deeply rooted in the national psyche: to hold power one must show the utmost ferocity and single-mindedness...
Some Swiss like the proverb that says the way you shout something into the forest is the way it will come back to you. So if you want someone to be cooperative, you have to show the same spirit. No aggression, no hostility. If World Jewish Congress head Edgar Bronfman had followed this behavior, maybe the Swiss would move mountains and perhaps even offer him a chair. CATRINA DENKER Zurich...
...that, as the proverb suggests, is almost impossible. Starr may yet bring indictments against Clinton aides who participated in a possible cover-up during the first term or perjured themselves in sworn testimony. But attention is shifting--from a scandal based partly on the hard-to-believe idea that Clinton tried to enrich himself to the easy-to-believe idea that he wanted to get re-elected. Clinton, everyone knows, cares little about making money. But when it comes to winning, he takes no prisoners...