Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anguish that still sounds natural coming from the play's routine, middle-aged characters. It is just like when you read certain sections of The Wasteland over the phone to your mother, and your roommate notices that your speech is high-brow without noting that you are actually uttering sovereign metaphors for the emptiness of modern life. Thus, is The Cocktail Party's pro-found human philosophy slipped beneath the rug of Eliot's drawing room drama. Eliot's thought is incipient, but it is lent a certain credibility through its slippery resistance to categories of religion, modernism or classicism...
...However], we are dealing with a sovereign country. A country can decide to go it alone and renounce agreements it completed with us. But I trust the good sense of President Suharto and his people. They won't do that. They know the programs are good. But the program has not delivered all its potential because it has been either not implemented fully or was circumvented...
...this state-of-the-art challenge the Dalai Lama brings, in his own words, a "radical informality," a gift for cutting through to the heart of things and an unusually open and practical mind. If I had to single out one sovereign quality in him, it would be alertness, whether he's reminding me of a sentence he delivered to me seven years before or picking out a friend's face in the middle of a jam-packed prayer hall...
...Security Council Thursday on Iraq's continued prevarication. Aziz, he said, told him that Iraq had destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction ? but then turned around and increased the number of sites to which Butler and his team are denied access. Now it's not only "presidential and sovereign sites" that are off limits, but also ministry headquarters, plus anywhere Saddam Hussein has ever lived, worked, or vacationed. Apparently the same restrictions do not apply if you're carrying a camera and a press pass. Perhaps Butler would have more success taking a cover...
After all the public theater on both sides last week, the terms of the confrontation did not change. If Saddam was still in his box, Clinton was still in his quandary. Saddam wins if he manages to keep the inspectors out of his "sovereign sites." The U.S. loses if it cannot bring the anti-Iraq coalition back together, at least inside the Security Council. Without it, any "last option" military action by the U.S. appears remote...