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...instigation, Nixon relinquished his California law license. (He tried to do the same in New York, but the lawyers there wanted the fun of disbarring him themselves.) By sparing himself and his country a great deal of unpleasantness and embarrassment, Nixon performed an act of unaccustomed grace--class, even. A judge may soon decide whether President Clinton has the ethics of an Arkansas lawyer. But Clinton himself can decide whether he's as classy as Richard Nixon...
MICHAEL J. FOX Exits Spin City with grace--and big ratings. Charlie Sheen's got very big tassle loafers to fill...
...fights might have lured them in, but fans say hockey's speed and grace kept them coming back. "I'd never seen a game before, but we loved it right away," says season-ticket holder Cathy Borchalli, 37, a full-time mom. "It was fast. It was fun. It was wild. It was different...
Anyone campaigning for optimism runs the risk of sounding like Ronald Reagan in his fable of the invincibly sunny child who searched for a Christmas pony in the manure pile. A person must have access to optimism--not often an available grace in areas of great poverty and disease (the African AIDS belt, for example). And it depends what the object of your optimism is. An optimist who hopes to start a flourishing small business is different from an optimist who hopes to blow himself to heaven by driving a car bomb into the Great Satan's military barracks...
...speaking against U.S. isolationism before World War II, fought bravely in it (he was childishly vain about his medals) and was a little resentful, later on, when show biz didn't give him any Old Guy awards. But by then he was the Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging--but when he appeared, in drawing-room comedy revivals, his welcomes were thunderous. He pretended astonishment but basked in the warmth of these tributes to his essential quality: old-fashioned, unspoken gallantry...