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Elisa's life became an excruciating alternation of happiness and horror. The four-year-old took the Friends School's screening examination and passed. But according to Montessori teacher Barbara Simmons, she also began telling people that her mother had locked her in a closet. On one occasion she volunteered, "Awilda hits me. I don't want to go to Awilda." Montessori principal Bryce says she reported suspected abuse to both the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services and a child-abuse hot line--the CWA's second warning about Elisa. In response, Bryce has said, child-welfare workers made several...
...problem, from their point of view, isn't just Buchanan's reputation as (depending on which of his critics you consult) a demagogue, an anti-Semite or a closet fascist. Equally problematic is his eclectic extremism--far right on social issues, well to the left on trade, a frequent dissenter from the party line...
...Politics, told TIME Daily. "It seems clear that there was a series of phone calls between Williams, Thomases and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum the morning after Foster's death. And it's also clear that the Whitewater papers were moved by Williams to Mrs. Clinton's bedroom closet right after these phone calls. The interesting question is, why would the White House want to hide the papers...
...When you make the decision to come out of the closet, your life changes dramatically and you don't have to hide anymore," Triantafillou said...
...ever happened, would be enhanced by the presence of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Hussein of Jordan. Further hand-holding from the White House became necessary when Rabin and Arafat balked over an unresolved hitch minutes before the document was due to be signed, forcing Clinton to closet himself with both leaders in his private dining room and urge them to settle their differences. But in the end the script itself, which Arafat hailed as "the peace of the brave," was enough to steal the show...