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...gets mugged and begs for more. After all, it was the middle class that elected all those fellows, on both sides of the aisle, who so loyally serve the rich. Maybe now we'll smarten up and learn how to hold on to our wallets. Or maybe the dread class war is already over, and the suits have run away with the loot...
...House floor. The new charges involve not what obscure Arkansas wheeler-dealers did 15 years ago but what was said as recently as late February by George Stephanopoulos, the President's most trusted political adviser after his wife and the Vice President. And the story brings up the dread words obstruction of justice -- even in the minds of Administration officials. Says one: "Based on the facts we believe Fiske has developed during his grand jury sessions, it's possible that at least one and perhaps several Section 1505 indictments could issue." Section 1505 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code...
...deal." She feels the hopelessness of preserving animals in "a netherworld of human scrutiny and intervention" by maintaining an ark for captive species that will never sleep freely under a night sky. In her marriage, she accepts her husband's infidelities. Finally, he has the one affair that wives dread: he falls in love with a younger woman and steps away from his old life...
...onset of physical and mental decline, and the accompanying limitations, provide the main reason why so many of us dread the prospect of growing old. In this culture, aging is portrayed as a time when people become implicated in elaborate (and often not wholly effective) subterfuges which often involve the application of assorted unguents and Grecian Formula...
Common to all of these is the concern about aloneness, the dread of abandonment, the fear of a meaningless existence. Sometimes it is associated with anger at the perceived devaluation and rejection (the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger said two people are often killed with each suicide); sometimes with feelings of guilt, inadequacy or fear of criticism that are so great that one punishes oneself rather than being punished by others...