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...coaxing all the crazies out of the woodwork. They bring with them a twitchy hybrid of spirituality and pop obsession. Part Christian, part Asian mystic, part Gnostic, part X-Files, it mixes immemorial longings with the latest in trivial sentiments. When it all dissolves in overheated computer chat and harmless New Age vaporings, who cares? But sometimes it matters, for both the faithful and the people who care about them. Sometimes it makes death a consummation devoutly, all too devoutly, to be desired...
...officials and foreign ambassadors. Imagine the fuss if Clinton had enlisted other countries' ambassadors in his partisan fund-raising efforts. But Nickles says all this is different from Clinton's "coffees" because Bush just "dropped in on a reception. He was probably there 30 or 40 minutes." Forty minutes--harmless fun. An hour and a half--call in the special prosecutor...
...request from congressional investigators, Ickes has been turning over thousands of pages of documents from his three years as Clinton's deputy chief of staff, the job he left in January, thus forcing the White House to release them before they leak. While most appear to be harmless to the White House, a few priceless pages explode the President's claim that he was aloof from the fund-raising shenanigans of Campaign...
There is a theory held by some criminologists that evil eventually melts out of the body. That if you warehouse a man in jail long enough, he will become harmless. Youth's passions dim. Perversion's fires cool. Old felons may not exactly reform but are defanged by time. It is this theory that Lawrence Singleton contested last week, after his bloody fashion...
...Although you would think they were harmless, if you see a raccoon in the daytime, he's out too early and there's something wrong," Baker said...