Word: marche
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...Whitewater partner Susan McDougal has refused to cooperate. The Clintons have had their memory lapses. And Starr has failed to turn little fish against big ones. His Whitewater endgame may amount to nothing more than a final bash at Hubbell, a scathing report on the Clintons and a stiff march into the sunset...
Tucker's first day of secret testimony, March 18, was devoted to a six-hour tour of the Clintons' real estate history. Starr apparently hoped he would provide more details about Hillary's role in a house-of-cards residential development called Castle Grande, which Jim McDougal financed through his savings-and-loan, Madison Guaranty. Federal regulators called Castle Grande a sham. Af-ter earning $2 million in commissions and fees for McDougal's associates, it collapsed in 1989 (cost to taxpayers: $4 million), helping trigger the $50 million failure of Madison. In sworn statements to federal regulators, Hillary said...
When FBI agents arrested him last week, Groat was divorced and living in a Winnebago van. According to his indictment, however, Groat in the interim had begun to carry out his threat, allegedly passing on "the targeting and compromise of cryptographic systems" to the two foreign governments in March and April...
...fighting," he said in 1936, "to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world." F.D.R.'s brilliant (and sometimes not so brilliant) improvisations restored America's faith in democratic institutions. Elsewhere on the planet, democracy was under assault. Hitler was on the march in Europe. Japan had invaded China and dreamed of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere under Japanese domination...
What, then, is greatness? In what does it reside? If a man's project fails, or survives only in irredeemably tarnished form, can the force of his example still merit the extreme accolade? For Jawaharlal Nehru, the defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand, to Dandi on the Salt March in 1930. Here was the pilgrim on his quest of Truth, quiet, peaceful, determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days...