Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biography First in His Class. "It's just a habitual recovery process for him now. He starts out being angry, confused and depressed and then slowly tries to find his way." So whether Clinton's acts of public contrition are calculated performances or genuine bulletins from a man in pain--or both, which is always possible--it would be a mistake to see them as signs of a weakening will to fight back...
...President asks us to forgive him. He speaks to the nation with tears in his eyes, admitting that he has caused pain to his family and to the American people. Yet at the same time, he sends his lawyers into both the legal and political arenas with an argument so tenuous and so precise in their hair-splitting that he draws criticism even from the Democratic leadership in Congress...
...bluff, an attempt to leverage the impoverished regime's only real bargaining chip: its ability to threaten its neighbors. Unveiling a new missile would fit nicely with that strategy. "This may be a way of poking us and saying, 'Pay attention to North Korea. We can still be a pain in the neck,'" says Joel Wit, a senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based public policy think tank. The delayed negotiations resumed Saturday in New York, and State Department officials reported progress in the talks. They will brief the White House this week...
...Clinton was a failed one-term Governor until he apologized for raising car-tag fees and got his wife to drop that fancy "Rodham" business with her name. In 1992 he became the Comeback Kid, miraculously saving a crashing candidacy by quickly apologizing for causing pain in his marriage. So why on Aug. 17 couldn't he live the lie a little bit longer in order to satisfy a huge TV audience looking for a reason not to impeach him, fearing that it would hurt them as much as it would hurt him? For whatever reasons of pride and arrogance...
Weather Channel Rating: [2 1/2 umbrellas] We expected more from TWC. Don't they wait all year for this sort of thing? Love the ominous Bergman silhouette, but when the reporter's as hooded as Kenny from South Park, we can't feel the pain...