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...best. Censuring the President in a symbolic vote by both houses has all the music of compromise that lawmakers love: it sends the moral signal that Clinton's behavior was wrong and unacceptable, but it stops well short of running him off. Both Republicans and Democrats could take their pound of flesh just a few weeks before the election, but without lowering themselves to Starr's level. Under the circumstances, says a presidential adviser, they would gladly settle for a censure. "If we could get a deal, we'd take...
...always called them. But the XXXLs of the world have a message for us. It's still O.K. to call them fat, as long as you don't make fun of them. "We're fat! We're here! Get over it!" was the cry at the recent Million Pound March here, a celebration notable for the fact that nobody actually marched anywhere...
...couldn't help noticing that two words seemed to have been excised from the million-pound vocabulary: exercise and nutrition. Some of the liberated even insisted there was no conclusive evidence linking obesity with health problems...
...Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than 12 in. in some places--which caused flooding in North and South Carolina. When the crisis seemed to be over, Bonnie regained some of her fury to pound Virginia before heading...
...part of his plan?s allure. The West, Mahathir insists, fears a ascendant Asia, with its large Muslim populations and strong governments, and is gleefully exploiting the Asian crisis as an opportunity to tear down the region's governments and replace them with toadies. In Mahathir's play, the pound of flesh has already been torn away. Like its neighbors, Malaysia lies bleeding, but when Korea, Thailand and Indonesia eagerly gulped down $150 billion in IMF bailout loans, Mahathir wanted none of the West's medicine. Shylock, after all, was no healer...