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...helped make all this possible. "Bill Clinton really altered the landscape for politicians and their marriages, starting with the Gennifer Flowers affair," she says. "There was no reason for Giuliani to keep up the fa?ade." If anything, Giuliani may get a boost from standing up and calling a sham a sham. "It's sad, especially for their kids," says Rivera. "But it's been obvious that this was a deeply strained relationship...
...shot a chance. New Hampshire, with its small population and open primary, gave John McCain a chance to be heard, face-to-face, in more than 100 town-hall meetings. And give McCain credit for driving a stake through the Iowa caucuses by declining to take part in that sham excuse for an early test. (Roughly 4% of the voting-age population participated this year. May the caucuses rest in peace...
...think the FLA is a sham," said Yale senior Amanda E. Bell, one of the organizers of yesterday's rally. "We think it's a public relations ploy by corporations. We would like to see Yale take a moral stand [by withdrawing...
After getting routed in the North Country by Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the Crimson still shared first place with the Saints at 13 points. It was a sham of a claim that surely would've dissipated over the exam break as the rest of the ECAC played the up to four games in hand each team had on Harvard...
...nerdy glasses adorning his pinched face, Damon could more easily be mistaken for the creepy losers Hoffman usually plays (in Boogie Nights or Happiness) than for a patrician hunk like Dickie. The deglamorizing of Ripley pays off beautifully in his final meeting with Freddie, who sees through Tom's sham, quickly spotting the poseur's lapses of taste and showing a delicious upper-class contempt for a real nobody trying to be a fake somebody...