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...lies is that when he shook his finger at me and said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he was so damn convincing. Nixon's Oval Office offenses and subsequent prevarications were a thousandfold more reprehensible, but I could always take comfort in his transparency. Slick Willie snookered most of us. MARTIN BLINDER San Anselmo, Calif...
Conscientious citizens should consider it their obligation to visit Resignation.com. Did you know that Winston Churchill resigned? Perhaps our President should stick around after all. Winston doesn't really deserve Slick Willie's kind of company. NOAH D. OPPENHEIM
...Steppin' It Up," but the synergy of past ventures doesn't quite reappear, and the song, as do many aspects of the album, sounds halting and deliberate. Q-Tip waxes an eloquent soliloquy in "The Love" about love in all forms, but for every one of these slick arrangements, there is a lame and unmemorable tune waiting to follow it. "4 Moms" is an enjoyable instrumental respite, but the album hits bottom in "Give Me" when Ali Shaheed inexplicably spins in samples from Boyz...
...France's President, Jacques Chirac, is still largely responsible for foreign policy and Jospin is preoccupied with getting his own country back on track. But among Blair, Clinton and Schroder, the situation is bleak. And yet whom do we have to blame? I don't have faith in the slick sell of these career politicians, and I voted for one. And I probably would have voted for Blair and Schroder, too, if I had been in a position...
...know what's worse: the fact that genuine world leadership seems to have disappeared or that very few people seems to care. What is clear, though, is that the world order we have ushered in over the last six years is relatively efficient, very slick and tremendously uninspiring...