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...reputation and to the Democratic Party. She won by throwing the "kitchen sink" at Obama, as her campaign aides described it. Her campaign had been an assault on Obama's character flaws, real and imagined, rather than on matters of substance. Clinton also suffered a bizarre self-inflicted wound, having reimagined her peaceful landing at a Bosnian airstrip in 1996 as a battlefield scene complete with sniper fire. After six weeks of this, according to one poll, 60% of the American people considered her "untrustworthy," a Nixonian indictment...
...Skipper Watson and crew Wareham, who was named to the All-New England team, wound up eighth in the A-division. They accumulated seven top-eight finishes in Saturday’s competition, highlighted by a second-place finish in the regatta’s opening race...
...Harvard’s B-division boat finished in third place, while the A-division boat wound up in sixth...
...high-profile company. The brokerage Bear Stearns wound up dogless a few weeks ago. Bear Stearns, known for extreme self-interest, couldn't find a friend to throw it a lifeline. Now it's as good as gone...
Nevertheless, few subjects escape the artist's bleak skepticism. Still lifes tend to comment on the transience of things, but Goya's piles of lifeless fish and game lend unexpected violence to this theme: the white fur of a rabbit's belly exposes the wound where it was shot; the blank eyes of a lamb's skull look disconsolately at its butchered torso. Equally unsettling, a large painting of The Taking of Christ is notable less for the sorrowful figure at its center than for the jeering, crazed mob that surrounds him. The same menacing irrationality appears in disturbing later...