Word: shakedowns
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While Clinton's performance may look better than it did at first, many experts doubt that much has changed. "I don't see any systemic improvement in the Administration," says Brent Scowcroft, who served as George Bush's National Security Adviser. "The notion that they've been through their shakedown and now have a smoothly running machine just isn't true. Even when they do things right they don't manage it well...
...mail over interstate wires and ordered him held without bond. (He could face five years in prison if convicted.) Before the arrest, Baker told TIME correspondent Wendy Cole that he meant no harm to the woman, but he defended his right to free expression: "We're now seeing a shakedown about what should and shouldn't be on the Internet. And I've gotten caught up in the midst...
Clothing could be purchased as well. Most of the shirts were so original and beautiful they made the Deadhead want to buy them all, from the simplest peace symbol to the intricate fusion of Sesame Street characters and the Shakedown Street album cover. And only 15 dollars, half of what you would pay for a garment commemortating your presence at one of the Eagles premium rehersal sessions that are passing for concerts this summer...
Georgia's reintegration into Russia's security orbit involves about as much mutual consent as a Mafia shakedown. Russia had cowed its independence-minded neighbors with tacit threats of dismemberment before. In the former republics of Moldova and Azerbaijan, an undeniable pattern has emerged. Secessionist rebels, abetted by rouge Russian forces, score impressive military successes. Miraculously, when these states relent and agree to join the C.I.S., Russia's ability to impose a lasting cease-fire soars...
...UNLIKELY FRONT man for a bald satire of political action committees. But THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN has the star updating Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with heaps of '90s cynicism and '60s righteousness. Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Murphy) is no saintly Jefferson Smith from the Frank Capra classic; he is a shakedown artist improbably elected to Congress who is tempted, then troubled, by corrupting PACS and perks. A pity that director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny) lacks the daredevil touch for a blend of 60 Minutes and Saturday Night Live. Murphy still has his supernova smile and a gift for acute accents...