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Usually when politicians bicker, they're at least stretching the truth if not outright lying. But in this little-Atlantic tiff, each was absolutely right...
...deal directly with the leaders of their governments; he still allots relatively little time in his schedule for consultations with envoys. Some diplomats are equally dismayed by the way he equates the status of his office with that of the Security Council and the General Assembly. Before his recent tiff with the Security Council, he attended meetings only selectively, calling them a time- consuming waste. "His imperiousness is intolerable," says a senior French diplomat. "His job has gone to his head...
...everyday life. Mine,though, was a central figure--he became thesecurity blanket and quasi-parental figure that,as much as I hate to admit it, I still reallyneed. Lee new about every sidelong glance I gotfrom a guy I liked, got the play-by-play on everyminor roommate tiff, and listened to all mybitching about my parents. He was the first personto know when I found out I was going to appear on"Jeopardy!" in the spring, and when the show airedin May, he was the one I chose to watch it with,even though the entire dorm had congregated...
...about to kick an obnoxious male student. Fine, said the president, who was new on the job and probably thinking in metaphors. Paglia landed one that sent the fellow sprawling in the cafeteria. Says the woman warrior: "Committees were always convening over me." After leaving Bennington in 1979 -- one tiff too many -- she struggled for a decade to support herself...
...fair, it could have been worse, as it has been elsewhere. The recent fall of governments in Liberia and Somalia invited spasms of bloodletting that make the tumult in Ethiopia look like a tiff between friends. Still, the unrest in Addis Ababa laid bare the factional divisions that continue to plague Ethiopia, a country that has 70 ethnic groups and at least as many different languages. Holding together the country, or what remains of it, will be as daunting a task for the new regime as it was for the fallen...