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...PARTING BLOT (01/20/01): On his final morning in the White House, President Clinton grants 140 presidential pardons and 36 commutations. Marc Rich, who has been living as a fugitive in Switzerland since his 1983 indictment on tax evasion and fraud, is among those receiving pardons. The voluminous list also names several other controversial figures, including convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and notorious snake oil salesman Glenn Braswell...
Even four years ago, Garcia said, the data on black holes and event horizons would have failed the informal "thumb rule" in science: "If you can stick your thumb on it and blot out the important data point, then you're really in trouble...
...pillars of Bush's campaign: that he is trustworthy and that Gore, like Bill Clinton, is not. On issues ranging from taxes to Social Security, Bush has asserted, "I trust the people." Yet, critics charged, he did not trust the people to understand and put in context this blot on his record...
...undermined one of the pillars of Bush's campaign: that he is trustworthy and that Gore, like Bill Clinton, is not. On issues ranging from taxes to Social Security, Bush has asserted, "I trust the people." Yet he did not trust them to understand and put in context this blot on his record...
...Bush what he did to Bill Bradley--provoke the Governor into policy debates and then strangle him with details. Gore "distorts in a very detailed way," says Bolten. The policy shop must parry those criticisms, but if Bush spends too much time rebutting them, he'll look defensive and blot out his own message...