Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate for the U.S. Senate, Clinton cannot ignore the issue of Israel-Palestinian relations. Nor can she continue to avoid questions on Palestinian statehood. She cannot continue to flip-flop, like she did on the issue of clemency for 16 Puerto Rican separatists in September. She will have to put forth her own education plans, instead of merely criticizing Republican tax cuts. And instead of straddling the fence as she did last October, she will have to decide for certain whether she roots for the Mets or the Yankees...
Redmond, however, says she continues to feel sidelined in Seton's administration--and cautions would-be council leaders, prepping for next month's election, to avoid split tickets...
Partly this was the act of a masterly politician. Jiang's amiability reflects a man working hard to avoid offending anyone. It's a kind of sensitivity few Emperors would exhibit, but it is probably tied to the fact that Jiang isn't ruling 15th century China. He's ruling a 21st century nation in which the role of Communist Party leadership is being questioned. Explains Jonathan Pollack, the Rand Corp.'s chief China expert: "Jiang is something of a paradoxical figure... The leadership is very anxious. They have a collective self-esteem problem." Jiang's response...
...Externalist case, whose origins are noble enough, undergoes chemical change and becomes mere black racism and inchoate hatred--an intoxicating but evanescent luxury, like a cocaine high. Activism hardens into chronic, unappeasable grievance. As Horowitz says, "The phantom of institutional racism allows black leaders to avoid the encounter with real problems within their own communities, which are neither caused by whites nor soluble by the actions of whites, but which cry out for attention...
...could have uncovered a smoking gun in a medical controversy that has been simmering unresolved for years." But we specifically reported, "There is no smoking gun." This is just one example of how Smith distorted our report in order to discredit it. Our story was carefully written to avoid exactly what Smith accused us of doing--overstating the science and causing a scare. Of course, any reporter, even one like Smith from a competing network, is entitled to come to his own conclusions about our story, but they should be based on the facts. Smith's article was unfair...