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Students whose idea of leisure-reading involves snuggling up with the memoirs of former government officials might enjoy Reversing Relations with Former Adversaries: U. S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War. The book might also be useful to government concentrators looking for a way to sidestep heavy reading in an international relations class. Students who do not fit into one of these categories might want to wait for the movie...
...talk about enablers, the people who help them go on drinking, either by encouraging them outright or by cleaning up after them. When it comes to women, Clinton has had a lifetime of enablers--not just the friends who egged him on but also the ones who helped him sidestep accusations. During the '92 campaign, aide Betsey Wright used to fend off "bimbo eruptions," charges about women from his Arkansas days. Senior adviser Bruce Lindsey used to advise flight attendants on the campaign plane to stay out of range of news cameras when Clinton disembarked. If the claims about Lewinsky...
...Meanwhile, Asian finance officials may try to relieve some economic pressure in the region ? and sidestep IMF restrictions ? by establishing their own multibillion-dollar bailout fund. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fund would cooperate with the IMF and would have strict borrowing requirements of its own, but would not be accountable to the IMF. The fund, which would supplement international loans, has been opposed by the U.S. ? which wants to keep the IMF in control of dousing the region?s fiscal brush fires. TIME asks whether the IMF is up to the job of bailing out the Tigers
...critical mass, that point where a heavy convergence of posturing emits a detectable unit of political substance. Something of that kind produced the chain reaction that moved the McCain-Feingold reform bill to the Senate floor last week. What it mainly required was that a President trying to sidestep his own problems bump up against Republicans briefly eager not to look like defenders of a system they have spared no effort in the past to defend...
...funky guitar. Her topics are very coffeehouse--there's a pro-tree song--but there's also a sharp cover of Come As You Are that remakes Kurt Cobain's anguished alternative-rock classic into a plaintive, acoustic plea for self-acceptance. At their best, Love and Indigo Girls sidestep trends and go straight to the heart...