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...either by encouraging them outright or by cleaning up after them. When it comes to women, Clinton has had a lifetime of enablers--not just the friends who egged him on but also the ones who helped him sidestep accusations. During the '92 campaign, aide Betsey Wright used to fend off "bimbo eruptions," charges about women from his Arkansas days. Senior adviser Bruce Lindsey used to advise flight attendants on the campaign plane to stay out of range of news cameras when Clinton disembarked. If the claims about Lewinsky are true, then what Clinton needed around him was more Evelyn...
...innocent child who indirectly causes all this fuss, emerges as the center of both rationality and emotion in the novel. Existence with his flighty mother Mirry is less than satisfactory; when post-murder complications force her to leave Ian to fend for himself for a while, Ian, instead of lamenting her absence, looks forward to "a really good tidy-up" of their filthy apartment. He alone remains calm through all the turbulence of chaotic events, yet it is his plangent, intermittent requests for paternal affection that add a touching although never cloying emotional dimension to the book...
...stopped going to two classes altogether; I lost 20 pounds over the course of the semester; I rarely ate a meal other than dinner, and then usually a meager dinner, almost always alone. From my seventeenth-floor perch over Cambridge, I spent long nights brooding, trying desperately to fend off deeply suicidal moods that regularly haunted me. The first people to notice were my parents, at Thanksgiving break; it wasn't until I returned home for Christmas and had a series of mother-mandated medical exams that I received any professional help...
Then there are celebrities whose exact commitment to the faith is a guessing game. Oliver Stone publicly conscripts Tibetan "wrathful deities" to fend off his detractors; Courtney Love is said to be a practitioner, while Harrison Ford simply supports Tibetan freedom (his wife Melissa Mathison wrote Kundun's script). Composer Philip Glass, yes. REM singer Michael Stipe, maybe. And in one of the more peculiar occurrences along the Hollywood-Lhasa axis, action-film star and all-around surly guy Steven Seagal was recognized by the head of the venerable Nyingma Tibetan lineage as the reincarnation of a 15th century lama...
Despite such warnings, Coop employees will often have to fend off first-years eager to break the rules...