Word: soft
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...Israel's traditional reliance on the U.S.," which disturbed him for personal as well as diplomatic reasons. According to Ben-Menashe, says Hersh, Shamir "viscerally disliked the U.S." The unnamed Israeli said that "Shamir has always been fascinated with authority and strong regimes. He sees the U.S. as very soft, bourgeois, materialistic and effete...
...correspondent in the Washington bureau, and later editor of Nation. Named assistant managing editor in July, Walter presides over what we call the back of the book, the various departments that cover news in the sciences, society and culture. But that does not mean he now considers himself a "soft news" person. "The distinction between hard news and soft news has become irrelevant, even meaningless," he says. "News is whatever is current that affects our lives, interests us or provokes us to think about the world...
...founding editor Herbert Croly and early contributor Walter Lippmann. But in 1974 the magazine was bought by Martin Peretz. It subsequently reflected his evolution from a major donor to liberal Democratic causes to a leading neoconservative with hawkish views on foreign policy. During the 1980s the magazine went soft on the Reagan Administration, ridiculed much of the Democratic Party for its lack of pragmatism and echoed Peretz's forceful pro-Israel views. No journal has done better explaining the often unprincipled but always practical reasoning of Bush Administration officials, who routinely unburdened themselves to the magazine's White House correspondent...
Aristide is a man of contradictions. Soft-spoken and relaxed in private, he is like a pillar of fire when he addresses the public. As a priest he spoke tirelessly against what he considered "sham" elections -- then he became a candidate himself. In 1987 he thought the new, liberal Haitian constitution was a fancy-dress costume being worn by a brutal dictatorship; as President he learned to use it well. A longtime champion of human rights, he has been reticent until very recently about condemning mob violence...
...economy has declined from 56% in October 1989 to 36% in late summer. And a swelling field of Democratic presidential candidates, aware that nitpicking Bush on foreign policy could be futile, are aiming straight at the economy in the hope that it will prove to be the President's soft underbelly...