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...confrontation yet. "Let's take this one step at a time," said National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, adding that the inspectors should be allowed to decide their own timetable. With the three-week standoff still fresh in everyone's memory and the Russian-brokered deal that ended it still tenuous, the U.S. isn't about to strong-arm its way into these palaces ? even if they do constitute a suspiciously large amount of Iraqi real estate...
...opening weekend, Russian Ragtime has perhaps the most tenuous link to Judaism of any film in the festival. It is suggested that the father of Misha, the protagonist, left Misha's mother because she was Jewish. That's it. Ragtime would fit more easily into a Communist or Russian Film Festival than a Jewish Film Festival, and any festival would be glad to have...
Harvard took a tenuous 45-44 lead into halftime and could not shake the Slovakian team until late in the second half when Feaster and senior guard Alison Seanor combined on several nice plays to put the game out of reach...
...named China's President. But his perch at the top was extremely tenuous, almost entirely dependent on Deng's support. For that reason, Jiang was as reticent and correct as possible in his first years in power. When CNN interviewed the new President in 1993, he wanted to read all his answers from a TelePrompTer. On those occasions when he allowed himself a little spontaneity, it tended to backfire. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, he described the Tiananmen killings as "much ado about nothing," prompting outrage in the West. "He is a lightweight," decided a Clinton Administration official...
...double entendre after wildly provocative double entendre at the defenseless Ballard, her devoted tutor. The two rather quickly become lovers--but in the physical, not emotional, sense of the word. Delbanco incorrectly assumes a few lurid encounters between Ballard and Beth are sufficient demonstration of their timeless love. The tenuous emotional bond between the two lovers relies on little more than sex and arch conversations; it is scarcely strong enough to survive a strong shock...