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...half dozen greatest Americans; he worked with the nation's fatal realities and died--as he knew he would--to change them. I suspect that if Clinton ever thought his ideas, such as they are, would put him in danger, he would drop them and flee at the speed of light. Clinton has had his moments, but an awful lot of his tenure smacks of a Renaissance Weekend's theater of illusion, sleight-of-hand performed for an audience that is being looked after by someone backstage--Alan Greenspan...
...under communism, yet he is a storytellerpoet more concerned with the forests than withpeople. He does not run from his own historicalcontext; but he, in a move that will perhaps beincreasingly repeated, bravely attends to himselfand many of the old cares of poetry in their turn.He certainly does not flee his time, carelesslyrutting in transcendentalism or other naiveaesthetics. In fact, his language and reliance onoblique image is, if anything, a testament to thecomplexities of the present and the wisdom ofcontemporary poetry not to state naively what hasbeen disproved by the last century. But moreimportantly, upon even a first reading...
There was little Aguilar could do. If he had tried to back out, he insists, he would have been killed. He urged the conspirators to let him use a long-range rifle, but they were adamant that he use an automatic pistol up close and flee in a waiting...
...linked like my dog and his fleas. My pet serves as a watchdog and friend; Clinton does his job as a leader tackling difficult problems. My dog's fleas do nothing but irritate him and me. Starr's investigations have only done harm to the body politic. Let him flee the judgment of history. PAUL J. LAROCCA East Hartford, Conn...
...Formulations like "censure," "censure plus," and "censure with teeth" came in and out of fashion. With Gingrich out, Hyde's committee in obvious disarray and Livingston showing no stomach for dealing with the impeachment mess, the troops had no leader to guide them. But before the agitated Republicans could flee the House in a stampede, DeLay, the third-ranking Republican and the man whose job it is to round up votes, started nailing the exits shut. The Constitution allows one option, he said: impeachment, up or down. Censure "means nothing." And voting to impeach Clinton for lying under oath...