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...nearby capillary and darts between the cells that compose the blood- vessel wall. It dives into the red river that courses through lung and liver, breast and brain. An hour or so later, it surfaces on some tranquil shore, settles down and -- at the expense of its hapless neighbors -- begins to prosper...
...dismal record of engaging slave labor and persecuting dissidence; in fact, in the last few months, Jiang Zemin's regime has bullied prominent dissidents with a particularly gleeful abandon. At his Seattle summit with Secretary of State Warren "the Romulan" Christopher, Jiang struck a strident tone, warning the hapless Secretary to lay off China's internal affairs...
Blackmun began as a Justice who blithely upheld a $50 fee for poor people filing for bankruptcy, since all it took was giving up movies and cigarettes for a week. But as in baseball, where he passionately rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs along with his hometown Minnesota Twins, he came to defend the underdogs in life: blacks, women, gays, aliens, Native Americans. By 1977, in a dissent from the majority's denial of funds for Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears...
Some projects are better left unfinished, especially when they die as miserably as "The Hudsucker Proxy" does. For all the great moments of the first half, the only good things about the second half of this hapless flick is the bounty comparisons it begs. For instance, unlike the fresh pot of coffee you will need to revive yourself when the credits roll, this ill-conceived attempt from director Joel and Ethan Coen tastes more like the four day-old black sludge forgotten on the kitchen counter--bitter, could and best thrown...
...particularly sensitive because the agency is trying to recapture money lost from failed savings and loans like Madison Guaranty of Little Rock, the institution with ties to the Clintons' hapless Whitewater Development Corp. As a result of Altman's congressional testimony, the public now knows that Treasury officials held three meetings with White House aides to discuss the RTC's Madison investigation. Administration officials confirm that Altman didn't know about the first two. Those became public after Altman acknowledged that he himself called the third for last Feb. 2, a session he describes as a "brief heads-up" designed...