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...chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto the lens - a Monet brought to life by two dancing scarlet brushes...
Second, he'll always be hostage to the impeachment crisis, like having a scarlet I embroidered on his chest. Clinton may look better to historians when they take a bigger look at the boom time of the 1990s, perhaps the best time to be alive in America ever. He did an excellent job as President; he knew how to prioritize the most important issues of his time, America's debt and the need for balanced budgets. His foreign-policy record is underappreciated. He turned America from a cold war mentality to a globalization mentality. But no matter how well...
...Conservatism Strikes Back. Principled partisans, the majority of Bush supporters, will vote on account of their already established ideological preferences. On the Republican side of the aisle, principled partisans who aren't also wealthy tend to derive their conservatism from religious fundamentalism. Like characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, these social conservatives revel in Bush's pledge to uphold "traditional values" by legislative fiat. Their ideology of government-mandated morality includes, among other things, rights for the unborn but not for all the born...
Timoney avenged her singles loss at No. 3 doubles. Ajilore and Timoney stole the tiebreaker from the Scarlet Knights' Amanda Travlos and Weckstein, winning...
...worlds you pass in a handful of time! On your way in, you may pass old, tired Jews leaning for support and planting kisses on the Western Wall as if they were caressing their grandchildren. Moments later, you skirt by a Muslim scholar, a white turban wrapped around his scarlet fez. He is bent double in the shade of a pine, scrubbing his feet and hands as he prepares to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque. The air is alive with the sacred mumblings of Hebrew and Arabic. It smells like dust and cumin and cardamom. And the gold...