Word: alterity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Clinton Administration inherited President Bush?s policy of containing Saddam, and did nothing to substantially alter it despite ample evidence that it wasn?t working. Worse still, the administration also engaged in a pointless bombing campaign two years ago when Baghdad refused to comply with the arms inspection regime, and then simply stopped its attacks after four days. By clinging to a collapsing sanctions regime, the Clinton administration has failed to maintain the strategic initiative on Iraq, leaving Washington in a position of having to respond to others' initiatives...
...Rove, press attache Karen Hughes and operations chief Joe Allbaugh--if he can get him to come. (Allbaugh, who isn't keen to move to D.C., joked to TIME recently that he was "looking for lottery numbers so I can tell the Governor to 'Go to hell.'") Bush's alter ego, Don Evans, a friend going back 25 years, will probably be Commerce Secretary. And there was talk last week of recruiting Dallas Cowboy great and Annapolis grad Roger Staubach to be Secretary of the Navy...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...ALTER EGO] Clark Kent [COOL CAR] No need [TRAGIC PAST] Home planet destroyed [URBAN PERCH] Metropolis [ARCHENEMIES] Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Metallo [SUPERPOWERS] Faster than a speeding bullet; ability to leap tall buildings [WEARS A CAPE...
...ALTER EGO] Karl Wojtyla [COOL CAR] Popemobile [TRAGIC PAST] Mother died when he was 9 [URBAN PERCH] Vatican City [ARCHENEMIES] Communists, Beelzebub [SUPERPOWERS] Transubstantiation; hot line to Jesus [WEARS A CAPE...