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...Today?s announcement appears to suggest that the PA is declaring war on Hamas, says Hamad, and the Islamic organization will respond by attacking Israel to embarrass Arafat. ?Cracking down on Hamas may impress the U.S. and Israel, but it puts the PA in conflict with a significant portion of the Palestinian population,? says Hamad. Even if the PA has declared the Sharif case closed, that means little if they fail to convince Hamas -- who are, after all, the ones who do the bombing...
...What the President can claim is that the Jones case never should have been filed, and that it's further proof that the right-wingers are out to get him. "The White House is going to redouble its defense that a meritless case was pursued purely to harass and embarrass him," says Branegan. "And they'll apply that spin directly to Ken Starr...
...visit the Bow: "So this is a Hahvahd bah. I thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall." There are no equations on the wall, of course (maybe if they'd gone to the Grille...), but there is the unpleasant encounter with the grad student eager to embarrass those he considers his intellectual inferiors...
...personal "extras" are a problem because they embarrass us. To themselves, they're just going about their daily routine, but to us they represent opportunities missed, projects abandoned and friendships unstruck. They are the could-have-beens of our college careers. Maybe someday one of them will discover a cure for some disease, and then people will say to us, "Laundry-Basket Boy just rid the world of multiple sclerosis. Weren't you in college together?" Or maybe Pre-Frosh could have been a great friend of ours. We'll never know. What's embarrassing is not that we aren...
...Supreme Court ruled unanimously last year that the Jones case could go forward while Clinton was in office, the Justices also indicated that the trial judge could make decisions that take into account the fact that the defendant is the President. For instance, questions that seem designed just to embarrass him politically could be ruled out of bounds...