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The first-day spin: It's a triumph for human rights and a vindication of Clinton's constructive-engagement policy.
She rejected my contention that ecological initiatives represent "the leading postwar triumph for American government," and slammed me for using the word "success" to describe environmental regulation.
An editorial in the Jakarta Post declared the elections "a triumph for the Indonesian people and democracy," but in light of predictions that Golkar would poll strongly in the country's outer islands and might be able to hold on to power with the help of small Islamic parties, the Post said, "It would be a hollow victory and a terrible irony if our exercise in democracy failed to produce the very goal of the whole process: Voting out the status quo and putting a proreform government in its place."
"[T]he annihilation of everything Cannes has stood for" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). "A spectacular triumph of style over substance," says the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley.
The New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times all lead with tobacco's latest triumph: A federal appeals court in Richmond, VA, ruled Friday that the Food and Drug Administration cannot regulate nicotine as a drug without explicit Congressional authorization.