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This is supposed to be the campaign of domestic issues, in which foreign policy is President Bush's strong suit -- even though he doesn't necessarily want to remind voters of that -- and candidate Clinton is too inexperienced to challenge him. But a funny thing happened when they wrangled over Bosnia for a day last week. Bush looked vulnerable on foreign matters, and Clinton showed he was not afraid to attack him. More important perhaps, it reminded voters of the fundamental choice they make when they step into the ballot booth each four years: Who deserves...
...Louisiana Superdome, Clinton attacked Bush for failing the ultimate values test -- the willingness to assume responsibility for one's own shortcomings. "That was some piece of work," says a Bush campaign official, "and I'm sure we'll be hearing more in the same vein. We're trying to remind people of Clinton's sordid past, and he's saying the President lacks the guts to face his own complicity for what's wrong. We look cheap, and Clinton looks presidential...
...Fisher (Joan Plowright), a crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), are trussed in marriages that seem more like mergers. Lottie's husband, an attorney, wants her to be a housemaid and party ornament. Rose's husband, a writer, wants her to stay at home, out of his lightly lecherous way, and tend the emptiness...
Washington decided to crack down last month. CIA Director Robert Gates visited King Hussein at his Aqaba retreat on the Red Sea to remind him of his responsibilities. It was an appropriate venue for the mission; the bulk of the illegal cargoes that are eventually trucked into Iraq enter Jordan via ships docking at Aqaba. Confronted with the CIA'S evidence of cross-border smuggling, however, Hussein has finally ordered officials to stop the trade. Truck traffic from Jordan to Iraq has since declined by a third. In Amman last week, Secretary of State James Baker acknowledged a "reduced leakage...
...underdogs: at least 130 of the nations that will compete in Barcelona will have the luxury of being in a can't-lose position -- expectations for them are so low that any achievement will be a triumph. And perhaps 90% of all the athletes can do no more than remind themselves that David beat Goliath in the Slingshot Event. Even the former Soviet Union is an underdog this time. And though the soccer World Cup offers a little of the same excitement -- when Cameroon met England two years ago, all the small countries of the world were surely backing...