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...outselling Usher and Avril Lavigne. I couldn't tell you who half these people are. My kids were very impressed that I outsold Usher. And then they showed me who he was. I said, "Oh, I get it. Is he a rapper...
...Klein thinks Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer's getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from the L.A. ghetto, don't count. When Bill Clinton dies, the streets of Washington will be thronged with weeping, praying mourners. But they won't be like the people who watched Reagan's funeral procession. Many of Clinton's mourners will be people...
...Edinburgh. Schools, churches, caves and doorways become makeshift stages, eager actors thrust handbills at passersby, and anything that doesn't move is plastered with promotional flyers. There's something for everyone. If you like new plays, try the Traverse Theater. Opera and symphony concerts are around the corner at Usher Hall, while up on the esplanade of the Edinburgh Castle, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo features hundreds of bagpipers, drummers and military musicians, tanks and more...
...rage at our former President - and who spent much of the '90s spreading vicious rumors about him - should follow Clinton's lead and seek counseling as well. Surely they have demons of their own to overcome. Quentin Dunne Sherman Oaks, California, U.S. Joe Klein thinks Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from...
...unrealistic principles, our present-day actions violate some of them too. There isn't much about today's America that its visionary third President wouldn't find troubling, in need of improvement or just plain horrifying. The peaceful republic that Jefferson wished for and did what he could to usher into being--a collection of independent gentleman farmers, moderately prosperous and highly educated, living under a thrifty, modest government that was legally bound not to meddle in their affairs, be they commercial, domestic or religious, and which staunchly resisted foreign "entanglements"--seems now like a large-scale version of Monticello...