Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East China Sea aren?t likely to ease tensions. Japan and South Korea continued an unprecedented joint naval exercise Wednesday, in response to North Korea?s increasingly belligerent missile-testing program. But acting crazy is an important part of the reclusive communist state?s effort to secure aid from Washington and its allies. "Making themselves a security problem is North Korea?s primary leverage in dealing with the world," says TIME Tokyo correspondent Tim Larimer. "It?s crippled by famine and the decline of its industrial base, so its military might and reputation for irrationality are its strongest cards...
...button. "By making so much of it we may have turned this missile firing into a test of North Korean manhood," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Being more discreet may give Pyongyang more of a way out." Which may be why, despite the threats of harsh economic retaliation, Washington is arguing strongly that a $5 billion U.S.-Japanese-South Korean program of nuclear energy aid to North Korea will go ahead regardless...
Like many in the clan, Townsend grew up with football and politics and the Washington social swirl and got the requisite Harvard degree. She courted David during a trip down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft just after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. They were married in 1973, and a law degree and children followed. Her involvement in politics consisted mainly of volunteering for her uncle Ted's campaigns and stumping for local and congressional Democratic candidates. But two years after the family moved to David's home state of Maryland, in 1984, she decided to run for a congressional...
...with his family name. He has wondered aloud if he is "Kennedy enough," and he appeared to be following the more wobbly path of some Kennedys in high school when a substance-abuse problem landed him in a treatment center. At Providence College, "he wanted to get away from Washington," says former roommate Jim Vallee, who remembers that their early years were not "terribly political." But by his junior year, Patrick had found his focus, in part because of life-threatening surgery to remove a tumor near his spine. In 1988 he ran for the Rhode Island state legislature...
...Brown?s new magazine, Talk, Mrs. Clinton says the roots of her husband?s infidelities lay in his loyalties being divided at age four by a conflict between his mother and grandmother. Although some of the media speculated that the White House had been blindsided by the interview, TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister believes that?s highly unlikely. "This was a carefully thought-out decision," says McAllister. "The writer persuaded her to do the interview on the ground that it would help defuse the issue in her New York Senate race, and the First Lady knows that her own popularity...