Word: statesmanly
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...from becoming law. Just last week he derailed a minimalist lobbying-reform bill, largely because Democrats were for it. But all that was obstructionism as usual. When it came to a trade pact that was seven years in the making, the part-time history professor longed to be a statesman...
...international monitors observing the 1990 Haitian elections that Cedras' eventual foe Jean- Bertrand Aristide won with almost 70% of the vote in the only genuinely free balloting Haiti has ever known. If the dictators were going to bail out, they wanted to say yes to a respected statesman...
...back to take charge is not the same one who fled the September 1991 coup d'etat under the protective wing of the U.S. ambassador. "The presidency and exile have been a lesson for me," he told TIME recently. "I learned that I am a leader, but also a statesman with grave responsibilities. It is easier to be a leader than a negotiator. It is easier to lead the Haitian people in Haiti than to represent them before the world community...
...things we agree on?" Later, when an angry Clinton blamed G.O.P. partisanship for sinking the crime bill, Dole declared that "playing the blame game won't get us anywhere" and faxed a letter of ostensible compromise to the President as he flew on Air Force One. Who is this statesman-like, conciliatory character in the body of Dole...
What fully enraged Nasrin's opponents, however, was an interview last May in an Indian newspaper, the Statesman of Calcutta, which quoted -- misquoted, she insists -- a comment by her to the effect that the Koran should be "revised thoroughly" to give equal rights to women. Islam's central article of faith is that the Koran is the literal word of God and thus above revision. Mosques began ringing with calls for her head. Dhaka experienced an astonishing escalation of violent protests, bombings and clashes between Islamic militants and secularists. Nasrin's succes de scandale afforded conservative mullahs and their followers...