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...mind, I was always mad at myself because I asked for the special counsel and it was a horrible mistake. I really thought it was an up-and-up deal. The thing that really angered me was I felt helpless because I felt like I had set in motion a chain of events in a good-faith effort to reassure mostly the press more than the American people--the people didn't care--that I hadn't done anything wrong in Whitewater and neither had Hillary. And now Hillary, Susan McDougal, all these people in Arkansas, they were being crushed...
...exports cheaper and more appealing to American consumers. One result is that Japan and China have been running enormous trade surpluses with America. They have then reinvested a chunk of that surplus in U.S. bonds. Trans-Pacific trade is thus starting to look like that theoretical impossibility, a perpetual-motion machine: America pays for Asian goods with borrowed money, then Asia uses the profits from these sales to lend more money to its favorite customer. It's a deal that has been beneficial for both sides. A boom in exports to America has fueled economic growth in Japan and China...
...student strike. In the process he developed his taste for audiences and his talent for oratory. "I discovered that night that an audience had a feel to it," he said of this first speech, "[and] that audience and I were together. When I came to actually presenting the motion ... there was no need for parliamentary procedure. They came to their feet with a roar ... It was heady wine...
Captain Reagan, kept out of action because of poor vision, never saw hostile fire. Indeed, since he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit (jocularly given the acronym FUMPOO) at the old Hal Roach studios making propaganda films for the armed forces, he could usually bunk at home. They also serve who narrate documentaries...
...Sondheim's "Passion" and as a dark-hued Anna in the 1996 Broadway revival of "The King and I." Here she uses her kabuki face to all manner of deadpan delight, then goes into giddy spasms in the dance numbers. She's Buster Keaton in repose, Diane Keaton in motion. Her and the show's peak moment comes when she reluctantly teaches the conga to six randy sailors from the Brazilian Navy. The number, which in seven or eight minutes expands into barely controlled musical and sexual anarchy, is so irresistibly infectious, it's a wonder the audience doesn...