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This did not stop every armchair orator from writing the speech last week: I'm sorry I lied. I was protecting the privacy of my wife and daughter in an area in which people always keep things private. I didn't think I should be answering these questions in the first place because the underlying lawsuit was bunk, which has been borne out by its dismissal. Having to make this confession is humiliating, a punishment in itself. I still want to do the job you elected me to, and think I can do it well. [Aside to Congress] Impeach...
Longfellow lived in the house from 1837 to 1882. Although he is best known for poems like "From My Armchair" and "Song of Hiawatha," Longfellow was also a Harvard professor who could speak or translate 12 languages...
Galbraith says he always sat to Tudjman's left on a white, gilded couch, while Tudjman lounged in a gilded armchair. Meetings were often intense, and voices quickly rose...
...Dalai Lama was contemplating the latest strange turn in this enforced interaction with the modern world: the $70 million Hollywood movie Seven Years in Tibet and Martin Scorsese's remarkable new film, Kundun, both of which tell the story of his early life. Sitting cross-legged in his armchair, rocking back and forth as he spoke and always keeping an eye out to make sure my cup of tea was full, the famously accessible doctor of metaphysics talked with full-bodied candor, for day after day, about his death, the increasingly public divisions within the Tibetan community...
...pages; $28) is a new collection of Ambrose's essays that demonstrates deep knowledge and common sense about mankind's most senseless activity. Its author, whose military experience ended in 1955 after two years of R.O.T.C. at the University of Wisconsin, deftly avoids the punditry and globaloney of armchair adjutants and mediagenic experts...