Word: unyieldingness
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MARY MCCARTHY HAS BECOME a metaphor for an existential drama enveloping the CIA. On the surface, the question is whether CIA employees may take it upon themselves to reveal CIA secrets to the media. The answer is no. There is, in the first quarter-inch of every CIA employee's...
Talking to Hume, Snow did not back away from anything in particular, and tried out an easygoing but unyielding style. "There are probably a lot of people in the press room who from time to time say, I wish I hadn't written or said that," he said. "Here's...
In a triumph of outdated and intolerant dogma over practical effectiveness, the Boston Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities adoption agency decided to halt its services after its contract expires later this year. The decision, triggered by the Church’s disagreement with the Massachusetts state law allowing gays...
The internal divide over how hard to push on an issue as contentious as torture reflects how even six years in office together has not integrated the Bush and Cheney teams; in fact, in some ways they have grown further apart. It was Cheney's former chief of staff I...
The outcome will inevitably intensify the controversy, raging at home as well as abroad, over Reagan's unyielding commitment to SDI. To many Americans, the entire Soviet ploy in Iceland might seem to be a setup, one that would give the Kremlin powerful propaganda ammunition in its current "peace crusade...