Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative off-shoot of the Republican Club in the Radcliffe Women's Action Committee. Join these women as they fight to defend such great institutions as the Miss America pageant, Hooters and the Catholic Church...
...songs along the Potomac, as his good friend Ken Starr does. But that's one of the few ways in which he diverges from the independent counsel. As one of the frequent communicants at the altar of the Sunday-morning talk shows, Hatch has made it his mission to defend the judge. He's the James Carville of the right on the subject...
...words. I never could explain what happened to the middle-class tax cut, for example, or whether if the health-care plan covered 95% of Americans, it would meet the threshold of universal care. Still, I was never asked to lie. So I tried hard, sometimes too hard, to defend a President who never lost his ability to dazzle...
...have been thinking about Edmund Randolph, President Washington's Secretary of State, who was falsely accused of taking money from a foreign country. Rather than defend himself in office, distracting the nation from the delicate negotiations over the Jay Treaty, he resigned at once and conducted his defense as a private citizen. Clinton has a similar opportunity, though, as he said of this important time in America's history as a superpower, the moment can be squandered. The longer he resorts to half measures, the harder it will be to make a clean (and cleansing) break. It will be harder...
...civil phase, which will almost certainly spill over into the next century, is apt to wind up in an unseemly brawl involving the Ritz, al Fayed, the bodyguards, the paparazzi, Etoile Limousine and, of course, the insurance companies. Meanwhile, al Fayed continues to pursue his own investigation and to defend his son's reputation, keeping his London and Paris apartments eerily intact. "It is like the Egyptian pyramids," he says. "When you die, everything that belongs to you is put around--everything that you love, your things, food. From time to time I go to Dodi's apartment...