Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst injury Clinton has inflicted on the nation is that he has given Starr credibility. Clinton has made it impossible for us to criticize Starr's methods and acts without seeming to defend Clinton's. And Starr is far more dangerous. If honesty is the test, Starr fails: this was and is a dishonest investigation. He gleefully created crimes by asking questions that should never have been asked, knowing that no person could answer them honestly without hurting others and so would be tempted to lie. Clinton's lies are low crimes and misdemeanors. His punishment should be, at most...
...surprising for the IMF to defend itself so vigorously while failing in its task of reviving moribund economies. Why doesn't the IMF follow the example of the World Trade Organization, which is implementing a systematic and slow liberalization of trade barriers to allow the competitive upgrading of domestic industries before they must compete on a par with external economies? The IMF asks countries to do the impossible in a short period of time. But the best way is not the free-market way. NELSON LOW Singapore...
...actually cried until my parents let me train," she says. "My brother was in training, and he would practice on me; I needed a way to defend myself...
Oprah's fans--and I know they are out there--will undoubtedly jump to defend the woman who has won 32 Emmys and an Oscar nomination and who has distinguished herself as an advocate for victims of rape and child abuse. She has shown Americans, they would say, that a poor, black girl from Mississippi--words that Winfrey regularly uses on her show to describe herself--can succeed beyond her wildest dreams. Those fans certainly have a point. It's hard not to admire a woman who has obviously overcome much...
...such encounter started out when Cellucciattempted to defend his record...