Word: statesmanly
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...continually fight to balance the budget." That's dull work for a 66-year-old man who just took on a 29-year-old bride. "I will leave you as a politician," Edwards orated last week. "Sometime, hopefully, history will elevate me to the status of a statesman." Pending that, he may have to settle for King of the Rogues...
...center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War II ties -- but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling Mussolini the "greatest statesman of the century." He complained that the interviewer put words in his mouth but still considers joining forces with Hitler to have been Mussolini's main mistake. That, he says, "ruined fascism...
...root, the problem is not personalities but ideas. Even the most skilled statesman would flounder if lashed to the central idea of the Clinton foreign policy: that in the post-cold war era the U.S. can shed its arduous international responsibilities by transferring them to the U.N. or sundry other multilateral constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling...
Anestis said the SAC decided to invite Dan Quayle because "he is statesman who has been extremely active." He added that the Quayles have "done a lot for public service in their careers...
TIME's coverage of Watergate put the magazine, for a while, on Nixon's ever- expandable enemies list. But he -- and we -- mellowed during his years in self-imposed exile. As he gradually emerged as an elder statesman of the Republican Party, several of our editors, writers and correspondents were invited to intimate dinners, featuring good beef and vintage red Bordeaux, at Nixon's house in Saddle River, New Jersey, where the host talked sagaciously about domestic politics and foreign affairs...