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Once the political chaff is dusted away, the mini-debate over Bosnia is instructive. Both Bush and Clinton were saying the same thing. What Marlin Fitzwater called "reckless" -- Clinton's suggestion that the U.S. seek U.N. authorization for selective bombing to safeguard the relief of Sarajevo -- virtually repeated the prescriptions of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Clinton barely overstepped the cautious line the Bush Administration has been following...
...candidate with "the experience, the seasoning, the guts to do the right thing." Clinton counters that he is the younger, forward-looking man of bold action who can set the new goals, devise the new mission the U.S. needs in the post-cold war world. Bush says Clinton is "reckless"; Clinton says Bush is "rudderless and reactive." Bush is selling himself as the custodian of American hegemony in a unipolar world, Clinton as the advocate of multinational responsibility exercised through reshaped global institutions...
...spread by promiscuous, unprotected sex have been closed in many cities, either by government crackdown or just by a declining marketplace. The same thing happened to most of the "back room" bars where, in dim or unlit areas, patrons had anonymous sex. But at some establishments the era of reckless abandon never ended, and at others it is coming back...
...works of this wonderful writer (the plays Reckless and Blue Window, the screenplay Longtime Companion) pirouette impishly on themes as deep as the earth. His pieces begin as modern sophisticated comedies with the brisk banter of naturalism; then they spiral into tragedy and, finally, liberation from fears of madness, isolation, death. But not until his 1990 play, Prelude to a Kiss, did Lucas find the perfect blend of style and subject. The combatants here are the human body and the human urge to love. The first is impermanent, the second imperishable. For once an ad line gets the sense...
...Even at the end of Eisenhower's first year in office, McCarthy was supported by 50% of the people in a Gallup poll, with only 29% opposed to him. The history books tell us that many national figures -- including Eisenhower himself -- were afraid to defy McCarthy in his reckless early days; we neglect the reason -- the outpouring of popular support for him. His continued attack on Eisenhower's Republican Administration showed that McCarthy too was not a mere partisan. He was outside the system, able to see its fatal weakness -- so the system, through the press, was trying to destroy...