Word: statesmanship
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...that last week found Gingrich preaching statesmanship as he stumped for Republican candidates in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio. "We must not rush to judgment," said the man who has already branded Clinton a misogynist and accused the President and his party of "the most systematic, deliberate obstruction of justice, cover-up and effort to avoid the truth that we have ever seen in American history." But while Gingrich talked about going slowly, the House was picking up its pace toward this week's vote. And as a G.O.P. strategist worried: "Once you set up an inquiry, how do you stop...
...pages of transcripts and additional materials, will hit the airwaves at 9:00 ET Monday morning. Republicans, naturally, want to convict the President in the court of public opinion, and Democrats -- well, Democrats would obviously like this whole thing to go back in the vault. Consequence: the statesmanship charade is off. "If this is bipartisanship, then the Taliban wins the medal for religious tolerance," Frank quipped after the vote. Hyde answered that the mostly party-line votes were "civil." "Yeah," retorted Frank. "Very civil and very partisan...
...ticket to prosperity and order. Instead of standing tall, the world's leaders seem hunkered down, adopting timid defensive measures rather than the forceful steps each nation needs. In every country there are very difficult domestic politics that confine leaders, and globalization surely makes life more difficult for statesmanship. To some extent there is an inescapable logic built into the phenomenon: you cannot have both laissez-faire and command-control; you cannot say leaders should get out of the way of the economy, then whistle them back to fix things when there's trouble. Yet in the end, trust...
...rights, Glenn, who is concluding a 24-year political career and easing into senior statesmanship, ought to be beyond such concerns. By choice, he's not. In less than three months--36 years after he blasted into the sky inside the titanium pod of a Mercury spacecraft--he'll return aboard the relatively lavish space shuttle. Even as Congress's August recess begins and the rest of Washington's lawmakers decamp for their favorite vacation spots, Glenn will be in Houston and Florida for his most intensive month of training since being assigned to the mission...
According to current Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, Bunting-Smith's "statesmanship, courage and imperturbability guided Harvard and Radcliffe's alliance during the turbulent period of national unrest...