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...wish this was over," the President said. "after I leave this place, I never want to see it again." Bill Clinton on Monday night, after his sorta culpa? No. President Ulysses Grant in 1875, after scandals had smudged his Civil War gloss. Clinton has been reading about Grant, who he believes got a "bum rap." Both men were subjected to all manner of low-grade calumny: mostly financial scandals for Grant, mostly Monica for Clinton. For both, the accusations were constant, painful and irrelevant to a majority of the public. Grant remained the nation's most popular politician even postscandal...
...goes solitude? Is it all it's cracked up to be? Time for oneself to be pensive and find that deep inner core? Or does loneliness set in and communal living take on a rosier gloss? It depends. Like most things in life, I can't promise that a solo summer will solve all problems or even be a blast, but for some it could be just the change of atmosphere necessary to clear the cobwebs in your head...
Definitions aside, the couple is certainly useful for putting a kinder, gentler gloss on gay bashing. We aren't intolerant, James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, can say. We just believe you aren't trying hard enough, and we're here to help...
There is no love lost between the two houses. In an interview last year, Bertelli accused Ford of stealing his wife's ideas: "They did black nylon bags and put their bamboo handles on them; they did our high-gloss calfskin--they started using all our materials," he said. "It doesn't make sense. Gucci should follow its own strategy, not mine." Such bluster, says a Gucci spokesman, is common among fashion designers. Ford and De Sole have ignored...
...course, that is putting a high-minded gloss on the behavior, as if the auditorium of one's mind were always resounding to symposiums on Wittgenstein or on human rights in Myanmar. Caught me talking to myself? Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage! Thomas Jefferson dines alone! Shakespeare's soliloquies elevated talking to oneself to the highest art; on the other hand, Hamlet may not have been traveling with a full seabag either...