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...draft U.N. resolution setting out the Kosovo peace process was agreed to in negotiations among the G8 nations, but disagreements between Russia and the West resulted in a number of questions ?- such as the command and composition of the peacekeeping force -? being left open. Such issues, along with the tortuous negotiations over an implementation agreement, signal the conflicts to come. "Even as the deal is being implemented, Belgrade will refer to the letter of the resolution in order to challenge NATO?s interpretations," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "For example, they?re claiming the right to screen...
Despite the tortuous turns in her career, Hadid says she's not bitter. At 48, she's still young for an architect. And she doesn't believe in glass ceilings. Unless, of course, she's thinking of designing...
This fast-paced account of a bitter racial discrimination case brought by a Harvard-trained black attorney successfully evokes the tortuous ambiguities that surround efforts to integrate the professional work force through affirmative action. But it never quite answers the hard question at the heart of the story: Was Lawrence D. Mungin, the "good black" of the title, a competent lawyer who got the shaft because he was black, or a disillusioned Uncle Tom who blamed racism when his ambitions exceeded his talent? Without knowing that, it's impossible to judge the validity of Mungin's case...
...confine the seamier material to a secret sex appendix, a Starr ally told TIME. But because the President lied so long and hard, the report maintains, Starr had no choice but to include the particulars that proved that, despite Clinton's parsing of the term and even by the tortuous definition used in the Paula Jones deposition, Clinton and Lewinsky had sex, and Clinton lied to cover...
...insistence that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." When he spoke before the cameras, the lawyerly definition of sex wasn't in force. And in a recent TIME/CNN poll, 87% of those questioned said that oral sex was, well, sex. Hiding behind the ultimate tortuous legalism could help the President get through his testimony, but it won't pass the laugh test with the American people--which is why Clinton won't be parsing the meaning of "sexual relations" in any public statements...