Word: burnes
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President can do just about anything he wants, which is why he is under constraints to behave so well. As much as the bills he introduces, the speeches he gives and the Executive Orders he signs, a President is defined by the small acts at the margin that burn themselves into the national consciousness: Jimmy Carter with his killer rabbit and lust in his heart, Lyndon Johnson displaying his surgical scar, Richard Nixon strolling on the beach in his wing tips. In years to come, the biggest small thing of the Clinton presidency may turn...
...questions burn. What is the legal action Epstein says he has undertaken against past business associates? How deeply involved was he in the failures of Western Consulting Group and Western Business Investors? What impact, if any, will this have on his ability to teach accounting...
...have to end this way? Did the feds just get restless and vengeful at the crazy people who had killed four of their colleagues? Were the Davidians in fact intending to come out in a matter of days? Above all, did the cult members really set out to burn themselves and their children alive? Or did the tanks knock down their camp lanterns, burst open the propane, accidentally tossing a spark onto the tinder? A mass suicide? A mass homicide? A ghastly accident...
Israel today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...
...another irony, the growing mood of caution comes at a time when many households have fresh cash on hand. Americans pocketed $12 billion last year just by renegotiating their mortgages. "The nation has some money to burn for a change," says Gail Fosler, chief economist for the Conference Board, a business research group. "But no one wants to light the first match. It's not a recovery. It's only an improvement...