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...trades in copper, sugar, wheat and lumber futures. The Clintons, he said, would immediately pay $3,315 in back taxes and $10,134 in accrued interest to the U.S. Treasury and $514 in taxes and $652 in interest to the state of Arkansas. Employing a phrase that became notorious during Watergate, John Broder of the Los Angeles Times wryly asked if the previous explanation had become "inoperative." John Podesta, the White House staff secretary, replied half jokingly, "That's inoperative...
...beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century," Kissinger writes, using a typically grandiloquent phrase to say by 1990, Wilsonian idealism "seemed triumphant." This does not please him. He concludes his book with sentences of pro forma praise for America's idealism followed by sentences that begin with But. In the end, the buts win: "American idealism remains as essential as ever, perhaps even more so. But in the new world order, its role will be to provide the faith to sustain America through all the ambiguities of choice in an imperfect world...
Number of articles in major news outlets containing the word "Whitewater" as well as the phrase "feeding frenzy...
...blood be on us and on our children" is not a self-inflicted curse at all but an acknowledgment in terms of scriptural law that this specific group of Jews was willing to be responsible before God for an execution that it believed to be justified. In Leviticus, the phrase "their blood is upon them" is used repeatedly when the death penalty is prescribed...
...contemporary performers' interpretations of recently-written music, their performance was, for the most part, sympathetic to the composition. While some works based on specific poems or material extraneous to the work rely on intellectual interest for their appeal, requiring that the listener decipher the thematic "content" of each phrase, "Surrendering to the Stream" depends for its success primarily on its purely aural beauty. Commencing with a lone low cello note, the piece progresses to reveal two different motifs, one embodied in the romantic solos played by each instrument, the other rousing and dramatic. Although the work seems slightly too long...