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...something instead. I didn't have to write this little essay, for instance. Before doing nothing became a lost art, one that I had put a lifetime of training into, I would have gone up to the roof deck for a good nap. I definitely would not have taken the laptop up there...
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...taken six years of using force around the globe for Clinton to overcome his instinct not to use force at all. The dovish part of the President, his make-love-not-war part, is so deeply ingrained that his advisers no longer bother to deny it. He really believes that we all could get along fine if only he were around to lead us in a big conflict-resolution workshop. He normally keeps that stuff under wraps, but it was on display last Tuesday in a mostly ad-libbed speech at a conference of government unions. "I want...
...real men know that foreign policy has always been a choice of lesser evils. But that's exactly what Clinton was saying last week. He knows from his experience in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995 that Milosevic understands only force. The dirty little secret is that it's taken Clinton several years to realize that. It's impossible to know if last year's Balkan bloodshed might have been diminished had Clinton acted faster. But when Milosevic massed troops on the Kosovo border two weeks ago, Clinton faced a choice between his instincts and his experience, between doing nothing...
...safety too. The FDA has always insisted that any shortcuts it takes are balanced by the tight monitoring of fast-track drugs once they're in use. But in this case, at least, the monitoring was badly inadequate. The panel learned, for example, that 200,000 patients have taken Rezulin for a year or more--or maybe it's 400,000. No one could say if the risk leveled off after six months or kept growing. No one knew if the 35 deaths represented all those who died from Rezulin. Complained panel member Jules Hirsh of Rockefeller University: "The information...