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...been President. On Friday, the last full day of Clinton's presidency, the deal was finally announced, and Clinton confessed his misconduct. "I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely," he admitted in a statement, "but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false." He agreed to pay a $25,000 fine, and his Arkansas law license was suspended for five years. But the Arkansas Supreme Court's disbarment proceeding against him would be dropped, and Ray would close...
...success of teams, it has been shown, comes in cycles. What did the Yankees accomplish in the '80s? Absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, since 1990, teams as diverse as the Phillies, the Indians, and the Padres have all made World Series appearances, while the Reds, Blue Jays, and Marlins have all claimed championships...
...tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish that goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false," Clinton (Siewert) said. "I've apologized for my conduct and I've done my best to atone for it with my family, my administration and the American people. I have paid a high price for it, which I accept, because it caused so much pain to so many people...
...billed as oldies night. Many of the attendees have dyed their hair in patches of green, blue and gold, which I remember are the colors of the Brazilian flag. I file this away on my list of the acts of unassisted cultural decryption that I've been able to accomplish so far (the only other thing on that list is my translation of the word "tenda"). A few minutes later I see why so many concertgoers had hair that boasted their nationalistic pride - a few young workers in America Online T-shirts are doing the hair painting near the back...
...have tremendous gratitude for the challenge of it. I was so lucky to work intensively with my director Larry Moss on building the characters, creating their sounds, their movements, their psychological gestures, etc., and when I get tired I go to their tasks, what each character is trying to accomplish in any moment, what their obstacles are, how they're trying to get what they need. Larry is the champion of specificity and would not rest until we had mined everything there was to be found. And we're still finding things! I think that's the exciting part...