Word: sorrier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famous footage of Mr. Clinton embracing the intern in the crowd, a person starts to value the right not to watch and not to care. What we now know is approximately what we knew at the start. He did it; we're sorry he did; he must be sorrier than anyone else that he did it. Time to grow up and move...
Never mind. The plates continue spinning. General Cedras stays in Haiti. And Father Aristide, one of the sorrier horses that American policy has backed on a foreign track, returns to the winner's circle where he belongs, ringed by about a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of American bayonets. Democracy will be restored to an island that never had it in the first place. Haiti surely deserves democracy. It is just that the country's political culture, like that of, say, Somalia, is at the moment inhospitable to the novelty...
...American League championship, the Twins shrugged off Toronto in a five-game series that for most TV viewers was overshadowed by a sorrier sporting spectacle on Capitol Hill: the Senators vs. the dodger. Truth to tell, the AL snoozathon didn't need the Clarence Thomas hearings to upstage it; a church social could have done the job. Here, after all, were two teams from above the timber line playing in domed stadiums of spaceship sterility on synthetic carpets that made the games look like Brobdingnagian billiards. Only one contest was close all the way. Only one rooting interest tickled fans...