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...last-minute initiative aimed at attacking trade barriers not covered under the recently completed GATT global trade accord. Sprung on the G-7 leaders just 10 days before the summit opened, the initiative was cautiously accepted by some countries but was flatly and publicly rejected by the French. Stung by having to withdraw the initiative so abruptly, Clinton privately blamed his trade team for sloppy preparation...
...before Diller can make policy, he must make the deal. He must help sell it to the boards and shareholders of both companies, and help keep it from enticing other companies avid for a big buy. Diller may even have to convince himself that Tisch -- a proud man, stung by accusations that he is a timid blunderer in the high-speed world of entertainment commerce -- is not using the Diller name to entice a corporate behemoth with a fatter wallet...
Harvard beat Princeton in the first round of the tourney, 7-4, and then demolished UMass-Amherst, 12-5. But, catapulted into the round of four, the Crimson was stung by eventual champion Slippery Rock, 23-3, set back by Maryland in a nail-biter 5-4, and then fell to Bucknell in the finale...
...style derives from a hard-won discipline. Oliver Tambo, his former law partner and the longtime leader of the A.N.C. in exile who died last year, once described the youthful Mandela as "passionate, emotional, sensitive, quickly stung to bitterness and retaliation by insult and patronage." Who can discern those characteristics in the controlled Nelson Mandela of today? He now prizes rationality, logic, compromise, and distrusts sentiment. Prison steeled him, and over the decades he came to see emotion not as an ally but as a demon to be shunned. How was the man who emerged from prison different from...
WASHINGTON -- Stung by critics who say it is too accomodating to Russia and Boris Yeltsin, the Administration has undertaken a secret reassessment of its policies toward Moscow. Its Russia experts last month began preparing reports that challenge assumptions about "everything from what happens if Yeltsin is hit by a bus to what if Russia and Ukraine go to war," says an official. Those papers have now gone to the President and his top foreign-policy advisers...