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...faced. But like them, he made China more prosperous, made restitution to a significant number of the victims from the founding phase, showed a certain flexibility in moving to recruit new bureaucratic talent from those who had not been in the original band of the "faithful," and released the harshest of the constraints that had been imposed on writers and artists...
...harshest criticism of ESPP comes from several sophomores taking the required sophomore lecture course and tutorial...
Clinton agonized over that third bill, but his eventual assent was made palatable because Republicans had softened their harshest demands. And that happened because Clinton's moves to the middle had retarded Dole's progress, thus causing G.O.P. members of Congress to think first about their own careers, which meant standing for re-election with a law that reformed (or at least changed) welfare, the one program among thousands that had come to symbolize everything wrong with paternalistic Big Government...
Clinton can thank the Republicans for initiating his recovery: they let him make off with their best idea, balancing the budget in seven years. By claiming that goal as his own, and fending off the harshest ideas--never mind that his most painful cuts wouldn't kick in until after he left town--Clinton emerged with the upper hand. The White House message factory, run by political consultant Dick Morris, a two-party switch-hitter, helped him turn that success into a full-blown strategy. Suddenly, the Big Government, health-care blunderer had seized the political center, setting up shop...
Shapiro reserves his harshest criticism for his colleagues, however. In classic Shapiro-speak, the author notes that F. Lee Bailey's "reputation for hard drinking was still alive and well," then describes Bailey rambling one night after a few drinks. He continues to suggest that Bailey was the defense-team sieve, responsible for leaking stories to the New York Daily News and Simpson's original police interview to the tabloid Star, an interview in which, according to the Darden book, a disoriented Simpson was unable to explain his cut hand and unwilling to take a lie detector test...