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...early in 1998, their employer was bought out, and the new company passed out $15,000 checks as a sop in lieu of stock. The trio decided "it'd be funny if we pooled this money and started a company to make parodies of motivational posters," Justin says. "I mean, it was that or go to Vegas...
...preferred pick, former UNSCOM chief Rolf Ekeus, was nixed by France and Russia on the grounds that Iraq would never readmit him. Washington hawks - who charge that under Blix the IAEA missed weapons programs in both Iraq and North Korea - still see his selection as a sop to Saddam. "I've heard that Hans Blix is soft," says Blix himself. "Well, it's true that I prefer peaceful solutions. And so, it seems to me, does [President Bush]. I'm not a pacifist. Sometimes diplomacy has to be backed by force." As for the IAEA charges, Blix says the agency...
...Critics like Bara Hasibuan, a political columnist for Kompas, the nation's largest daily newspaper, say it is the cases the attorney general's office has declined to pursue that expose the current trials as little more than a sop to public opinion. For instance, the $3 billion extended by the central bank to Suharto crony Syamsul Nursalim's troubled business empire in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis remains unexplained, let alone investigated. The Nursalim family has long been closely associated with the President's businessman husband, Taufik Kiemas. Taufik is emerging as the country's second most...
...imagine" helping otherwise. If only to build public awareness of Saddam's recalcitrance, Blair backs a campaign to reinsert U.N. weapons inspectors kicked out in 1998. But unless they get free access to anywhere they want to go, Washington will almost certainly veto the deal as a dangerous sop - Eurowimps be damned. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning...
...subtle prejudice the African American Sayers faced among his own team (along with overt public racism when he and Piccolo became the Bears' first interracial roomies). But it cuts a key scene in which Piccolo calls Sayers a "nigger" to get a rise out of him, an apparent sop to contemporary sensibilities. Phifer's Sayers is a tougher nut to crack than Williams'; as Piccolo, Maher is a charming wiseacre, but a little too sprightly. Caan's wry, macho Piccolo was a football player. Maher's is an especially buff comedian...