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...suit, the leak looked like the work of a man out to save his own skin no matter what happened to Clinton's. As Jordan has said, according to a friend who quoted him to the New York Times, "I know what loyalty is, and I'm not a fool...
Webster and Shortridge are convinced that the avian virus is still circulating in the environment. "I don't think we're out of the woods yet," says Shortridge. Fukuda agrees: "You would be a fool to predict what the virus is going to do next. I'm equally prepared for this thing to disappear as I am to hear one day when I walk into the office, 'Oh, did you hear? There's another 10 cases--or 100 cases...
...just hoping not to make a fool out of myself," he joked...
...Talmudically glossed questions about the nature of his relationship and all the parsed notions of when sex wasn't sex and the almost nationwide realization that he splits hairs on the heads of bald men, this was as close as he had come to saying, "Can't fool you, can I?" It was the only moment of the morning that worried White House aides--because, as one low-level handler put it, "he left the mask off for a minute...
Hughes' account of this shared history and Plath's ruinous effect on it may or may not be accurate--and only a fool would attempt to parse another person's marriage--but it makes a poor premise for poetry. Lyric poems draw their energy from an active voice discussing the life choices, good or bad, it has made. Hughes portrays himself as a fern in a hurricane beyond his control. He gives only one poem, Dreamers, to the woman who broke up his marriage to Plath. In it he writes: "The Fable she carried/ Requisitioned...