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...Until she left that job in December 1996 to head the Voice of America, her White House duties could include anything from arranging furniture to making sure aides had the President's briefing papers ready. But Lieberman also put a brake on the freewheeling Clinton kids. She would regularly upbraid interns for wearing open-toed shoes or using the upstairs rest room that she wanted reserved for guests. Under her regime, hemlines fell among female interns, and blouses were buttoned. Says an aide: "Evelyn was the enforcer...
...Tutsi as an administrative overclass but also, thanks to the pseudoscientific theories favored at the time in the West, led them to believe they were biologically superior as well. This engendered a level of resentment previously unseen in the region. "Tutsi and Hutu have killed each other more to upbraid a vision they have of themselves and the others than for material interests," historian Gerard Prunier wrote in his account of the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. "That is what makes the killing so relentless...
Send personal envoys to Wall Street to upbraid the worst of the speculators. Then just to gig them a bit more, refer in conversations to capitalists who are "too damned greedy." Make it stated policy that the job of the Government is to keep up the quality of American life and that concern will first be focused on the underprivileged, education, housing, conservation...
...fact changed its position. Even before Haig had left Peking, President Reagan undercut him by telling a press conference: "I have not changed my feelings about Taiwan." The Chinese were upset enough to collar Haig at the airport, minutes before his scheduled departure, and upbraid him for the President's remarks. Since then, the attacks on Washington's Taiwan policy have grown steadily harsher...
Sadat had always despised the Russians, partly because Egypt frequently had to grovel for its arms shipments and partly because of the stony way they treated him personally. "They are crude, tasteless people," Sadat says. In 1972 he decided to upbraid them with a bit of theater. He put on his Commander in Chiefs uniform, complete with medals and sashes, and summoned the chief Soviet adviser. "Who do you see sitting in front of you?" Sadat asked. When the Russian expressed bafflement, Sadat screamed at him: "I am Field Marshal Joseph Stalin, that's who! If those spare parts...