Word: restraint
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...hounded for pictures of their newborns, apparently the situation the Blairs find themselves in these days with the English tabloids. If I may be brutally honest for a moment--and I realize that I'm getting into a sensitive area here--I would like to say that the restraint of the press when it comes to running pictures of ordinary, non-Cabinet-level newborns is probably, in the long run, a good thing...
...Rudy's. But whatever Giuliani decides--and his announcement could come this week--it won't be the alleged extramarital liaisons that hurt him. It will be the way he has handled them. New York is not prudish; for the past two years, the press has actually shown some restraint in reporting on Giuliani's private life. Hanover chose not to appear at his side when he won re-election in 1997, and she didn't show up at a city hall event for two years, but no one belabored the obvious. Giuliani stopped wearing his wedding ring; he brought...
Will such restraint continue for long in the anarchic, post-cold war era? American officials hope so, but they aren't betting on it. Now as before, when it comes to proliferation, the U.S. tries to have it both ways. It supports a wide range of arms-control efforts designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons abroad while hanging on tightly to a nuclear capability of its own and sometimes even brandishing it to make a point. This attracts criticism from others, but hypocrisy is par for the course in international relations. And besides, American officials are correct...
...played Steve Stifler in American Pie) lives up to his typecasting as the fuddy-duddy jock and gets the movie's raunchiest scenes; Paulo Costanzo makes his movie debut as the thoughtful one in the group; and DJ Qualls plays the standard nerdy virgin, only with a little less restraint...
...peacekeeping troops held hostage in Sierra Leone may undermine the larger objective of ending that unhappy country's malaise. Even as the U.N. military commander on the ground was reportedly planning an offensive into the rebel heartland Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's envoy in Freetown urged restraint in counterattacks against the rebels for fear of endangering the hostages. Liberia's President Charles Taylor, a longtime ally and patron of the Revolutionary United Front rebels, had over the weekend secured the release of some 139 peacekeepers after being urged to intercede by the U.N. But Taylor, himself a notorious...