Word: rudderlessness
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...threatening to suck it dry. But banks in Japan and South Korea now groan with bad debts that could push both countries into deep, prolonged downturns. In Japan, public confidence is at a postwar low and nobody wants to spend a yen. Korea is cash strapped and politically rudderless, with a presidential election just four weeks...
Perhaps it was symbolic that long-time zamboni driver Jack Kirraine retired last season after over 20 years of service to Bright Hockey Center as Harvard's home ice seems strangely rudderless these days...
Clinton isn't the only rudderless ship in Washington. The whole place, primed for battle so long, is having trouble coping with conciliation. Working hard to be charming, Newt Gingrich ends up making his loyalists loathe him more. "There's no interest in politics right now because there's no conflict," former Clinton strategist James Carville complained to the New Yorker last week. "Democracy demands conflict." Washington politicos brighten visibly only when asked about the likelihood of new brawls breaking out. They promise "big fights." They can't wait to start slugging...
...highly dubious. May have questioned why acting Commissioner Bud Selig has not yet come out in favor of a deal struck by Levine, the negotiator he appointed. Selig's statement? "I believe there will be a vote (today)...We shall see what we shall see." Baseball indeed seems rudderless as it hurtles toward another strike...
...else. So there was Bob Dole last week flailing at Bill Clinton's foreign policy--an issue of minimal resonance for voters more concerned about interest rates than Israel. To earlier charges that Clinton's foreign policy is "weak, indecisive, incoherent, inconsistent, vacillating, scattershot and self-contradictory," Dole added "rudderless and illusory," and said it's a product of "neglect, posturing, concessions and false triumphs ... a string of failures dressed up for television as victories." On Clinton's watch, Dole concluded, "This is not foreign relations; it is public relations...