Word: bested
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rest of the year, the public did its best to ignore two presidential candidates, George W. Bush and Al Gore, who insisted there were big issues at stake. Instead of paying attention to them, most folks watched some fascinating scenes roll past: thousands of anti-globalization protesters disrupting a World Bank conference in Washington; Ford and Firestone executives blaming one another for a string of auto fatalities; Bill Clinton taking a last, slow lap around the presidential track as his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought...
...sanctions. A finding tying Bin Laden to the Cole attack will, of course, beg the question of U.S. retaliation. But there's no easy way of striking back at an adversary with few fixed assets. President Clinton's 1998 cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and the Sudan were, at best, a singularly ineffective response and at worst played right into Bin Laden's hands by anointing him the most feared enemy of the U.S. in an Arab world whose hostility to Washington is growing...
...Eight years later, Saddam Hussein is exactly where Messrs. Cheney and Powell left him - although it's generally agreed that his grip on power is probably a lot stronger now. Despite U.S. funding of Iraqi opposition activity, it's generally agreed that the best hope for ousting Saddam remains his health. International sanctions against Iraq are collapsing because European and moderate Arab governments don't believe they're having any positive effect. At the same time, the U.N. arms inspection team is no longer on the ground, which means that nobody quite knows what Saddam?s scientists may be cooking...
...Clinton Legacy: Micromanaging attempts to bring peace to an intractable conflict has proved at best deeply frustrating, and at worst may have exacerbated the conflict. Dick Cheney is on solid ground when he suggests President Clinton may have been pushing too hard at last August's Camp David talks, the failure of which set the fire of the current intifada...
...Bomb blasts in Tel Aviv and Gaza on Thursday reportedly killed two and injured 16 more - as if anyone needed reminding that talk of peace means talk of compromise. And so it appears that even a U.S. president's best Solomon impression - the set of proposals that Bill Clinton left hanging in the air over the weekend - leaves those factions outside the Arafat umbrella in a very vengeful mood...