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...takes a quiet place to digest the past nine months -- learning the biggest job in the world, coping with a hostile Congress and a hostile press, dealing with the suicide of a close friend and the loss of his father-in-law. Before coming to the Vineyard, the Clintons went to visit Jim and Diane Blair at Beaver Lake, close to their roots in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where they got married, taught at the university and had their first home. It was 14 years ago on another visit to the Blairs' that Hillary found out she was finally pregnant...
...activated neutrophils then "walk across the epithelium into damaged cells," where they digest the useless tissue, Arnaout said...
Clearly, American politicians feel that their constituents can't digest the truth in their already distended stomachs. But more than bloated bellies, the doublespeak of "contribution" reveals the potentially corrosive force that mendacity has in American politics. Clinton has been extensively praised for his honesty and "tough-talk" on the editorial and op-ed pages of the nation. For what? For the "fairness" of the plan and its oh-so-serious attempt to reduce the budget deficit? Or for its far-reaching vision (i.e. re-election in four years) to rebuild and invest in America...
Rage and pity, even self-pity, have their place as well as their limits. Now let's try laughter -- the best medicine, as Reader's Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...
...usually decorous Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting in Stockholm, diplomats rocketed from their seats when Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev tossed out the diplomatic equivalent of a fragmentation grenade: a blistering anti-Western philippic right out of the cold war. After giving delegates 30 minutes to digest demands that the West immediately end U.N. sanctions in Serbia and get out of the Baltics, Kozyrev returned to explain that the speech was a ruse. His intended message: Don't take Russian democracy for granted...