Word: bloodlessness
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...Burundian government attributed the unrest to Hutu activists in Rwanda, who it says incited fellow tribesmen to attack the Tusi. In a press conference last week, Burundi's President, Major Pierre Buyoya, who took power in a bloodless coup last September, said he regretted the need to use force but denied that the army used napalm...
...tail on the donkey. The Democrats' renunciation of the word liberal annoys others besides journalists. It's annoying to believers in truth-in- advertising. Michael Dukakis, in most respects, is a classic postwar American liberal. It's annoying to Democrats who want their party to stand for something less bloodless than "pragmatism" and "competence...
...bloodless coup capped a week-long power struggle between the President and his army commander-in-chief. Once again the big losers were the Haitian people, who continue to endure one of the world's lowest standards of living (annual per capita income: $333) and who have gained little from the top- level game of musical chairs that began with the February 1986 ouster of Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Said an embittered young woman waiting at a Port-au-Prince bus depot last week: "Nothing has really changed. We remain with nothing." The mood was cautious in Washington, where...
...start, the Kennedy School's mission -- to create a "public policy profession," in Harvard President Derek Bok's words -- has been controversial. To the tweedy professors at the university who like their professions traditional and their academics pure, the new training ground smacks of a trade school for bloodless bureaucrats. To those who think governing emanates as much from the heart as the brain, the Kennedy School is, like Dukakis, too systematic and process-oriented. It is politics for non- emoters comfortable with decision trees and regression analyses...
...recent interview Williams said that during the filming in Thailand a group of American expatriate women were on hand in a nearby sound booth, their reactions piped into an earphone Williams wore out of camera shot. This arrangement, it was hoped, would inject some vitality into the bloodless recording sessions; but in the end the plan was abandoned, as it ruined Williams' timing...