Word: blame
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this election, this confoundingly close race, just dares wavering voters to make a decision and stick with it. It's even hard to choose whom to blame for its being so hard to choose. Could they be more alike, the two political princes, Texas and Tennessee, Harvard and Yale, the compassionate conservative against the pragmatic idealist? Could they be more different, one so unpolished it's hard to imagine, the other so shiny it hurts to look. Vice President Al Gore runs as a populist who doesn't talk much about the poor; George W. Bush, backed by more G.O.P...
Every politician knows to kiss a baby, but most avoid holding one for very long to escape blame for the inevitable burst of tears. Last Wednesday, after the President graciously accepted the hand-off of Representative Gregory Meeks' rambunctious one-year-old, instantly captivating her with a hybrid game of patty-cake and applause on cue, he seamlessly delivered the rationale for continuing what he had started in near perfect political, historical and emotional pitch. "It takes a long time to turn a country around," he said, after ticking off the achievements of his Administration, and noted, "This...
...could hardly blame her. Madeleine Albright was about to become the first American official to meet Kim Jong Il, a figure as mysterious as his country, which has been closed to the West for 55 years. Crazy rumors swirled about the man known as the Great Leader. He infused himself with the blood of virgins to stay young, claimed some ghoulish types; he kidnapped Western models for his harem, said others. But the reality is what is really scary--and why Albright and Bill Clinton, who may head there next month, are trying to make friends fast. U.S. intelligence believes...
...Pyongyang's spies. Mori recently let slip that on a 1997 trip to the North Korean capital, a delegation of pols he led suggested a way out of the diplomatic brier patch: Let Japan "discover" its people in a third country, say, Thailand, allowing North Korea to sidestep blame. The idea has some appeal, but only while secret. "If negotiations reach a deadlock in the future, North Korea might have thought about considering this plan," says Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter disappeared, at age 13, in 1977. "Now that would be difficult...
...lost something along the way. We've lost that sense of pride, pride in the way our government is run, and in the men and women who run it. We've looked to Washington and we've seen a raging madness, uncivil in tone and unethical in conduct. Blame for that belongs on all sides...