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The paper goes on to characterize international reaction thus far as "public condemnations and much hand-wringing," and also notes a problem with a proposed interposition of a U.N. peacekeeping force: China, which can veto such a move, is believed to be opposed to it.
On the impeachment scene, one hand-wringing article decries the triumph of partisanship over any meaningful ideological principle.
Fight Club , a movie about a fictional organization of men who strip down and beat each other to pulp, has provoked more than its share of media hand-wringing, particularly diatribes about Hollywood's infatuation with violence and Faludi-esque ruminations about the emasculated American male.
News Quiz participants mostly associate the activities in today's question with Littleton or Kosovo, two locales that President Clinton seems unable to connect, even when his hand-wringing about teen violence runs on the same front pages that report NATO bombs and refugee suffering.
But I would ask whether Eleanor's public hand-wringing didn't provide him with cover for his inaction.