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Outside experts liken the task of identifying the Trade Center bomb to the inquiry into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which debris was scattered for miles. Investigators in that case drew a life-size diagram of the plane on a warehouse floor, then set about reconstructing it piece by piece like a jigsaw puzzle. From that they could determine where in the plane's body the blast occurred, because "the metal would be bent to follow the contours of the vectors of the explosion," says Phillips...
More American women -- rich and poor alike -- are injured by the men in their life than by car accidents, muggings and rape combined. Advocates and experts liken the effect over time to a slow-acting poison. "Most battered women aren't killing to protect themselves from being killed that very moment," observes Charles Ewing, a law professor at SUNY Buffalo. "What they're protecting themselves from is slow but certain destruction, psychologically and physically. There's no place in the law for that...
...while some compared her to Lady Macbeth, I'd liken her to another stage character--my favorite female literary creation, none other than Sophocles' Antigone...
Lake and Black have many Japanese clients as well, which led Patrick Buchanan in January to liken the two men to "geisha girls of the new world order" and charge that "Mr. Bush's campaign is virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Inc." Senior White House officials later pressed Lake and Black to sever ties with their firms to prevent Clinton from capitalizing on the issue, but the effort fizzled. Explains Bush-Quayle counsel Bobby Burchfield: "If you have to sever your ties with business in order to work in presidential campaigns, people will not work in presidential campaigns...
Gore, for example, went so far as to liken America today to his son lying lifeless in his father's arms with "the empty stare of death . . . waiting for a second breath of life." Moving briskly from the pathetic to the political, Gore went on, "Our democracy is lying in the gutter, waiting for us to give it a second breath of life...