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...sense, Clinton has done the exact opposite. Without the trappings of his office, his actions have lost any even faint moral justification and seem merely shabby. And what moral justification is there anyway for slipping out of the house with some silverware and a few couches...
...very worst part is that the Black Students Association (BSA) sit-in and the letter they are writing are exact mirror events of what happened in 1996, when Mansfield responded to President Neil L. Rudenstine's report on diversity...
Laetitia's employers fired her without asking her exact diagnosis. For weeks she could not muster the courage to tell anyone. Then she told her children, and they were ashamed and frightened. Then, harder still, she told her mother. Her mother raged about the loss of money if Laetitia could not work again. She was so angry she ordered Laetitia out of the house. When her daughter wouldn't leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone...
...Even though the tax bill Congress passes won't be an exact copy of his plan, Bush believes he's already won. "The question is not whether there should be a tax cut but when and how much," says one of his aides. No matter how crowded the trough gets, Bush thinks he'll get credit for the feast...
...Just because men and women don't show exact equal outcomes doesn't mean there's discrimination," said Kimberly M. Schuld, IWF's director of policy...