Word: face
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...House of Representatives votes to impeach Bill Clinton in the next few weeks, the man responsible will be someone whose face most Americans won't recognize and whose name they may never have heard. It won't be Ken Starr, the independent counsel who brought the Monica Lewinsky affair to the House of Representatives. Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay...
...however, has a strange record in this area. In December 1989 Bush sent troops to Panama, grabbed General Manuel Noriega and hauled him to Florida for trial to face charges of narcotics trafficking. The indictment of Noriega was unprecedented because he was a sitting foreign leader, but prosecutors said they couldn't ignore his flagrant crimes. Noriega protested that the U.S. had no jurisdiction over him since his "arrest"--the Panama invasion--violated international law. But U.S. courts said the method of his arrest was irrelevant. Noriega was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in jail...
...Egyptian tale circulating at the time of Rameses. In it, the courtier Sinuhe takes refuge with Bedouins in southern Syria fearing he will be blamed for the assassination of a Pharaoh; there he marries the eldest daughter of the local chief. In the end, Sinuhe returns to Egypt to face the new Pharaoh. Such tales of political refuge and return abound in the ancient Near East...
Rather than erase him, God rewards him. At Moses' request, God agrees to reveal himself to Moses. "But, you cannot see my face," he explains. But "see there is a place near me. Station yourself on the rock and, as my Presence passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and shield you with my hand." Moses will be able to see him from behind. It is not until later that Moses realizes the full consequence of this experience. Returning to his people, he notices that "they shrank from coming near him": his face has taken...
...Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom the Lord singled out, face to face...