Word: trailed
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Appalling crimes have been committed, but proving that a particular suspect is guilty of a specific atrocity, as is legally required, will be difficult. The Nuremberg tribunal was aided greatly by meticulous Nazi record keeping; no such paper trail of official orders and reports is likely to turn up in Bosnia. And if solid indictments are eventually prepared, no court exists to + try such cases. Even more difficult, there is no way to arrest the suspects. "No one knows where this will lead," says a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but we have crimes here of such a scale that...
...Letterman is 45, Leno 42) and have similar roots in stand-up comedy, the two seem to represent different show-business generations. Letterman, with his subversive antics and ironic attitude, does not so much act as host for a talk show as satirize talk shows. He is following a trail blazed by Carson, who introduced a self-parodying subtext. Carson's famous "savers" -- ad-libs to salvage jokes that bombed -- along with his conspiratorial asides to the audience during corny bits like Aunt Blabby and Carnac, were a way of making the comedian himself the butt of the joke...
What this means, for the slow of mind and faint of heart, is that some of that money found its way into Clifford's pockets. One can only conclude that the government's persistent refusal to follow this bloody money trail, relentlessly, is because too many people as well-connected as Clark Clifford...
...then, as described above, I wasn't moving anymore. I was lying down three-quarters of the way to the bottom. My left ski--my faithful partner--stayed with me. The right one didn't. The treacherous slab finished the trail without...
...that I did. Not entirely. Okay, so I skied off the side of the trail a few times, but I never hit a tree. I fell down a few times, but everybody does. I kept my knees bent. I leaned into my turns. More mechanical than graceful, I didn't slice through the snow with the grace of Roger Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me." But I didn't completely suck...