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Clinton's Republicrat antics have been familiar to all Americans who have even an elementary knowledge of political affairs. If Clinton seems even more timid now, perhaps his current bout of spinelessness is due to the Republicans' electoral gains in the Senate and their continued control of the House of Representatives. Also, although I hate to encourage the sort of unfounded rumors and conjecture that have fueled scandals such as Whitewater, the White House Travel Office firings, the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and even Vincent W. Foster's suicide, perhaps Clinton is trying not to tread on any toes...
...writes different ways for different people." His work is sometimes slight and sentimental, but over the years, his songcraft has grown stronger. The Day's lyrics have a solid moral core: the family unit is revered, love comes with respect, and men do a lot of crying. "Done 'bout run out of tears," he coos on Talk to Me, a pop-soul-blues number featuring Clapton on guitar. "The thing that makes Babyface special is the way he talks about love," says Andre Harrell, president of Motown Records. "He says everything a woman wants to hear. He's the best...
...different way. Hall's long and venerable career, beginning (as he writes in "The Old Life," the central poem of his book) "on the Advocate in nineteen forty-eight," has taken him through a range of styles. After an early phase of neat, metrical poems, and a later bout with surrealism, his poetry has more recently developed certain regular characteristics: the use of ordinary diction; an engagement with certain issues, especially family history, the difference between urban and rural life and the approach of death; and, frequently, the use of a central conceit, sometimes quite fantastic, to structure his poems...
...bout some stats: A mere 186 yards of total offense for Columbia, including a woeful 53 yards on the ground, three sacks, fumble and an interception. Yeah, but the Crimson gave up 20 points, you say. True, but 10 of those points came off of turnovers, one on Harvard's own 19-yard line...
Last November, jurors split down the middle trying to decide his fate after he was charged with faking a contract to collect $350,000 in nonexistent training expenses for a canceled bout...