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...first person in Cambridge to say, "Hello, pretty woman, how are you today?" to me. What a welcome I thought I had! Imagine my dismay when I realized that I was not the only "pretty" woman whom he greeted so kindly. This fall, I mastered a tactic on how to avoid Au Bon Pain Man. Living in Kirkland House, I was initially dismayed at the thought of have to pass right by him three or four times a day. Some careful research taught me that if you stay off the sidewalk and cross the street before you hit the mailbox...
Even so, in a city that has perfected the tactic of trading long-term gain for short-term points, Gingrich's maneuver struck many as the most cynical they had seen in years. For months he worked behind the scenes as a pure free trader, insisting to Administration officials at every turn that he supported the treaty. Indeed, during the summer he won many changes in the measure as it was being drafted. He convinced the White House that U.S. participation in the World Trade Organization, a powerful new international body formed to arbitrate trade disputes, should be subject...
...have no doubt that the core anti-women crowd knew it was a good tactic," says the alumni member who graduated more than a decade...
...rate, nothing's been settled by this NATO tactic of occasionally spitting a bomb down here and there. The other day someone tallied up the damage that's been done until now: two old army trucks and a small hideout near Gorazde, a museum-quality half-track from World War II and, finally, a T- 55 tank. Three bombs, near Gorazde, didn't even explode. Before that, Karadzic's soldiers had shot down a Sea Harrier, also near Gorazde. While we aren't great tactical mathematicians here in Sarajevo, this seemed like a big price to pay for such little...
Bill Clinton at war has the disquieting countenance of Bill Clinton at peace: few principles seem inviolate; indiscipline and incoherence are the norm; careful planning falls to last-minute improvisation; steadfastness is only a tactic. At home that is not so remarkable. Political reality routinely demands compromise. And to be sure, Clinton has shown flashes of political courage and persistence, most notably in winning passage of NAFTA. But in the exercise of military power, and especially when one leads the world's lone superpower, retreat is contemptible. Consider the two other showcases of horror Clinton pledged to redress before Haiti...