Word: temperedness
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Even for the U.S. - the only country of any consequence that maintains an embargo of Cuba - the policy may be a fading reality, maintained primarily out of concern for the electoral clout of the anti-Castro lobby in swing states such as New Jersey and Florida. But public opinion may...
On Vietnam War issues, where McCain has reason to harbor anger, he has displayed a surprising ability to let it go. He befriended David Ifshin, the war protester whose speeches were piped into his cell, and he led the charge to forgive the country that held him for so long...
Keith Jarrett specializes in surprises. His youthful stints with the bands of Miles Davis and Charles Lloyd put him at ground zero of the jazz-rock fusion movement. Then, in the 1970s, he unplugged his keyboards and started giving the totally improvised, all-acoustic solo concerts that established him as...
Even in Western capitals, the usual jitters were tempered by widespread relief that Sharif was gone. Although U.S. Ambassador William Milam met with Musharraf to inform him of Washington's "profound regret about the military takeover," the U.S. was not all that upset by last week's events. The Asian...
"You can work with him, oh, absolutely," says Republican state senator Jim Brulte. "On fiscal issues, he's closer to us than to the Democrats." And considering that Democrats now monopolize state government, it could have been worse, says assembly minority leader Scott Baugh. "He has tempered the insatiable appetite...