Word: tug-of-war
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...rage: follow the polls, follow the focus groups, follow your consultants. "Leadership," wrote Dick Morris, the Iago of the Clinton era, "is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go." And guess who usually wins that tug-of-war? (Actually, it's neither the voters nor the politician; it's the consultant who massages the data and advises, "Be careful, Mr. President. Try something bite-size.") So it has been fun to watch Young Bush fly in the face of the mingy, tactical, peripheral politics of recent years...
...including Vilas, do want the leopards dead. They angrily accuse forest officer Dashrat Sabaj Wayal, who visits the villages armed only with the principles of conservation, of doing nothing. This isn't true. Wayal has helped trap and release 58 leopards since January 2000, and in February played tug-of-war with an animal that had a man locked in its jaws for 15 minutes until it gave...
That paper, the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, is little known in the U.S. but prized by Americans who live and travel abroad. The tug-of-war over it won outsize attention for the glimpse it offered into the leading families of America's media royalty--and into the divergent growth strategies pursued by their companies...
...Diplomatic Tug-of-War While the U.S. congress debated a motion on war with Iraq, the U.S. and Britain agreed on a draft U.N. resolution that gives Iraq a week to list the prohibited weapons in its possession, to allow inspections and to agree to disarm. The draft threatens "use of all necessary means" if Saddam Hussein fails to comply. "The resolution, or resolutions, must be strong enough ... that they produce disarmament and not just inspections," said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. That was the easy part. State Department official Marc Grossman visited France and Russia - veto-holding Security...
...Pervez Musharraf being appreciated in the West for his efforts to tackle terrorism and slammed by his own people at home, the general sentiment in India is that of despair: it is doubtful that international pressure can bring about an amicable solution to the 55-year-old Kashmir tug-of-war...