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There are politicians who specialize in being elected without being liked. Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain is the leading example. Her take-your-medicine style of leadership did not require personal popularity. But the American electorate, unlike the British one, does not relish a spanking. And Clinton is certainly not a politician who is indifferent to popularity. His desperate, boyish eagerness to be liked by everybody is one of his most charming but least presidential attributes. So it is especially mysterious that Clinton, of all recent Presidents, should stand poised to win re-election without acquiring the widespread...
With back pay identified as among the most irksome issues, the team advised that Yeltsin haul officials on the carpet for failing to distribute the cash as he'd directed. The President embraced that suggestion with relish, and the press eagerly reported the boss's taking his subordinates to task...
...quite content if I can do my research and my teaching," Witzel said. "I don't relish the chair, I regard it as a duty...
...limit their appearances to events they thought they could control. All three were invited to appear for an hour on Meet the Press, for instance; not one of them accepted. So while both parties' candidates endorsed the scheme, it remains to be seen whether Dole and Clinton will relish the idea of being locked in a room together during prime time with no way out except through the tube...
...gospel to its beneficiaries and anyone else in the area. With Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways...