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...Baba and Bubba format takes the focus away from semen stains and oral sex. Walters would be constrained by being in the presence of the valiant and wronged wife, and being in the couple's house, the White House, no less. Instead, after some dignified deflection (the old "there has been trouble in our marriage; we're working it out"), the interview would come to focus on the marriage itself. The public is sick of Monica and all that anyway; the real remaining mystery is Hillary: What's her true feeling about all this? How does she stand it? Saintliness...
Today, nuclear warfare threatens the Indian subcontinent. Had Harry Truman imagined this circumstance? At the time he made the fateful but valiant decision to nuke Japan, President Truman was controlling what he hoped to be the denouement of a most horrendous global conflict. Though he was initiating the nuclear age, he could not possibly have forecast the dissemination of nuclear know-how to countries which at the time were still under the domain of the late British Empire. Even the Soviets were still in the dark as to the workings of America's newest weapon...
Throughout my mothers valiant eight-month long battle with leukemia, I prayed faithfully that I would never be subjected to life without her. The possibility was much too painful to even imagine. My mother was my role model, my advisor and my best friend. I thought I wouldn't be able survive without...
Resurrecting the famed dance programs of Radcliffe years past can't be in a flick of the bunioned toe, but a few years of concentrated effort might help. And the past couple of years has seen a fairly sustained interest in...an attempt. But it's valiant, as memories of past organized summer dance programs worm their way into our heads. Of course, you've probably heard most about one big extravaganza, but first thing's first: metaphysics...
Here?s the worst-kept secret in the country today: Paula Jones has decided to appeal the dismissal of her sexual harassment suit against President Clinton. Despite valiant efforts by her handlers to keep the decision quiet until an orchestrated press conference Thursday -- even garrulous spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan has been wearing the muzzle of late -- the news has leaked out. Which is all that can be expected in a case where leaks to the press have become as common as filings to the judge...