Word: properness
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Wherever there is the death of innocents, we shall grieve. It is proper that we grieve. But in all of our grieving, let us remember what we believe and why it is worth defending. And, by God, let us defend it. Always...
Powell still thinks the best way he can influence policy is privately, behind closed doors. "My job," he told TIME, "is to make sure [the President] gets what he needs to make proper decisions." He's not willing, so far, to do battle the Washington way--to go public with complaints or positions in which his eminence would make even Republicans quake. "It's not whether I prevailed or failed to prevail on a particular issue," he said. "I'm not looking for anything except to serve this President and the American people as best...
...Powell still thinks the best way he can influence policy is privately, behind closed doors. "My job," he told TIME, "is to make sure (the President) gets what he needs to make proper decisions." He's not willing, so far, to do battle the Washington way?to go public with complaints or positions in which his eminence would make even Republicans quake. "It's not whether I prevailed or failed to prevail on a particular issue," he said. "I'm not looking for anything except to serve this President and the American people as best...
...appears to have been a local Israeli-Arab, rather than an infiltrator from the West Bank. Even though Israeli-Arab leaders rushed to condemn the attack, the idea that Palestinian Islamist groups such as Hamas have support networks among the 1 million of their brethren that live inside Israel-proper is a sobering one for Israel's security establishment...
...Spectator magazine that the frosty Queen has grudgingly given her approval for PRINCE CHARLES to marry his longtime mistress, CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES. If the rumors are true, it would mean the Queen has abandoned years of scrupulously pretending Camilla doesn't exist--which in Britain is referred to as proper. The marriage could occur as soon as 2003, according to the story. Finally, and most bizarrely, one of the few humans connected to Diana who did not cash in on her death, the man she called "my rock," was charged on Thursday with pilfering 342 pieces of clothing, kitchen tools...