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Despite the peace plan's promise to demilitarize the rebels, the KLA is turning itself into a standing army, according to a Kosovo dispatch . The rebels are manning checkpoints, policing cities to show their force, and voicing their reluctance to disarm.
This was only reinforced by his celebrated reluctance to run for president in 1988 and 1992 and his "politics is broken" retirement speech in 1996.
Historian Thomas Reeves believes that, despite the media's reluctance to look into Kennedy's private life, if he had lived to have a second term: "[T]he realities of his lechery and his dealings with Sam Giancana might have leaked out while he was still in office, gravely damaging the presidency.
reluctance the mind shows on recognizing that what it approaches
Balancing competing demands within a "cult of curability" may encourage physicians to evaluate success on the basis of curing, rather than on the basis of providing the best care for patients [ 17 ] . In such a system, it is easy to imagine how a resident's reluctance to propose alternative care approaches could result from intimidation by the accepted system rather than her own self-acknowledged lack of experience.