Word: specter
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...That much is already evident in Africa, where only the downsides of globalization are evident, and the specter of AIDS threatens whatever positive signals are still emanating. But there's little in the report to suggest that the intelligence community is likely to recommend anything other than clucking sympathetically from a safe distance...
...least a substantial interim peace agreement if he's to beat off the challenge of Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel goes to the polls - presuming Netanyahu can prevail over the legal obstacles to his candidacy - and President Clinton would dearly like to close out on a note of triumph. The specter of a right-wing Israeli government and a more distant Bush administration will be used to tempt Arafat to conclude a final peace deal while his Camp David partners are still in place, although there's also considerable Palestinian skepticism about being stampeded into compromises with lame ducks. Palestinian sources...
...Vice President-Elect Richard Cheney, who has more bypasses than the New Jersey Turnpike, seems to like to diet on the edge. Cheney attended the Wednesday lunch for moderate Republicans hosted by Sen. Arlen Specter in his Capitol hideaway. Spector and the other members of the "Mod Squad," as they're nicknamed - Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine, Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island - ordered salads and fruit. Cheney dug into a plate of fried chicken. Has anyone briefed him on cholesterol...
...handed the election to Bush - but it also raised many an eyebrow among an anxious public: Do we want a judiciary whose political leanings are so defined, and carry such weight? The Bush White House will be very much aware of that skepticism, and that knowledge - combined with the specter of a full 50 percent of Americans who don't agree with their politics and a 50-50 Senate (the body that confirms Supreme Court justices) - is likely to open doors to appointees whose politics are decidedly centrist...
...even the Hampstead series is freaked by the specter of white eccentricity. Day's milieu was like a gentle giant, fumbling to grasp exotic cultures, but instead squashing them under its thumb. He never antagonizes his many black, Algerian and working-class subjects, but he frequently objectifies them, making them into statues. Although his white nudes are more marmorial by virtue of their whiteness, they are always dignified by their reference to a classical subject, usually a god. On the other hand, the black nudes of Day's early career, the disadvantaged white youths of his later years and even...