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pieces paint Deng as a hard-nosed pragmatist and marvel at China's economic growth, but caution that the country is still beset by poverty, corruption, pollution, etc.
The case for not acting until you have to was put most vividly by Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles of Oklahoma, in a remark that also captures the hard-nosed attitude regarding humanitarian concerns.
To see why spinning really should be eliminated, you have to look at the question from a hard-nosed efficiency angle.
The top national story at the Washington Post is President Clinton's hard-nosed self-defense at his first press conference in months.
Both the NYT and WP fronts carry word of the resignation of a hard-nosed American member of the U.N.'s weapons inspection team, William Ritter.