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The top national story at the Washington Post is President Clinton's hard-nosed self-defense at his first press conference in months.
And racial profiling has many defenders who say it is sensible, hard-nosed policing of the sort that has led to a dramatic drop in the nation's crime rate.
His Prime Minister, Count Camillo Cavour, a hard-nosed political realist, won over moderate left-wing support for a program of free-trade capitalism and large-scale public works construction.
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.
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.