Word: granted
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...would Clinton want to plead not guilty by reason of addiction? Doubtful: it concedes too much. Which leaves this scenario: Bill and Hillary Clinton sit down with Barbara Walters in the White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of high colonics for the troubled celebrity mind. Her sacramental touch, her extreme unctuousness, is the very thing to preside over the tonal subtleties of this encounter--the faux intimacy, the clucking censure, the wet sympathy. Clinton and Walters might make beautiful music together, a harmony of ineffable falsenesses...
...institute is jointly sponsored by the American Repertory Theater and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute. It was launched in November 1997 with a $1.5 million challenge grant from the Ford Foundation...
...Clinton that's a bitter pill. He is, after all, a President who has long communed with the biographies of his predecessors--F.D.R. and Abe Lincoln in the early days of his Administration, when greatness still seemed possible; Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes more recently, as the truth set in. He once asked his adviser Dick Morris to rank him among the Presidents ("You are right on the cusp of making third tier," the consultant replied). And early this year, buoyed by his balanced-budget agreement with Congress and the success of welfare reform, he began trying...
...claims that MI6 tried to blow up Libya's Colonel Ghaddafi. How? The Guardian simply reprinted Wednesday's New York Times article on the subject. That forced the Foreign Office to actually deny the story for the first time; an official told Reuters it was "inconceivable" that they would grant the authority for assassinations "in normal peacetime circumstances...
...Tiffany Field, a Miami child psychologist who founded the Touch Research Institute six years ago with a $250,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson, says massage stimulates the vagus nerves, which then trigger processes that aid digestion, among other things. As a result of their speedy weight gain, Field says, massaged preemies are discharged to their parents an average of six days earlier, shaving $10,000 off their hospital tab. With 400,000 premature babies born in the U.S. every year, the potential cost savings are apparent. And eight months after birth, Field says, massaged preemies have superior motor skills...