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...rewrote and rearranged history to fit its political needs, there was a saying: In Russia it is impossible to predict the past. Well, in the bourgeois normality of the democratic West, one should say: Here it is impossible to predict the future. So when confronted with the apocalypse du jour, keep your head...
...past five years, the big sugar companies and vegetable growers of central Florida have fought the cleanup plan at every turn, filing about three dozen suits, appeals and challenges. (Browner used to refer to these actions ; as the "suit du jour.") The sugar growers complained that they had been turned into scapegoats and that the water-purity standards were unrealistically strict. A series of advertisements sponsored by U.S. Sugar argued that the restoration plan would spend half a billion dollars making swamp water cleaner than Evian bottled water...
Despite the continuing back and forth on the issue du jour, whether it's a long-running campus debate or a national controversy, one thing is clear: The campus left has grown tamer. When it comes to partisan politics, the visible activists on campus are predominantly conservative. And perhaps it is conservatives, more than liberals, who will forge Harvard's reputation for the future...
Whatever the truth, Clinton realized that his denials of Flowers' charges were not enough, so he agreed to appear with his wife on CBS's 60 Minutes Sunday night. How to effectively stem an anticipated "bimbo du jour" problem had become a tactical consideration because Clinton was dissatisfied with how his denials played through the print media's filter. "Too little control of how it goes over," explained a Clinton aide. "The only way out is through television." With 60 Minutes' post-Super Bowl audience expected to approach 100 million people, the state of the Clintons' union was certain...
...world of litigation and erected the world's first combination law office and wienerama, which offers legal help to go every Wednesday night. And while his culinary canines range in price from a $1.15 plain Plaintiff Dog to a fully dressed $1.45 Judge Dog, Pearman's jurisprudence plat du jour is free of charge...