Friday, December 19, 2003

The world has changed

Remember when the preferred description of attaching extremely precise meanings to words was Clintonian? Finally, we have moved on. Example: Chief International Monetary Fund spokesman Tom Dawson, on the IMF's current strained relations with Argentina:

QUESTIONER: Tom, is—you know, let us get some facts straight here. Is there a delay in the review of Argentina?

MR. DAWSON: I do not want to do a Rumsfeldian parsing of words here.

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