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...campaign pal in control of a union pension fund to join McAuliffe in a Florida land deal. The fund, which provided nearly all the capital in an equal partnership with McAuliffe, bought back his shares for more than $2 million--a move the department called imprudent but did not blame McAuliffe for. Likewise, when Prudential Insurance Co.--a generous donor to both parties--paid McAuliffe $375,000 to help secure a government lease, U.S. prosecutors in Washington fined the firm but found no problem with McAuliffe...
...Deion shows up at your summer job and starts critiquing your work, don't blame...
Still, over the years, there is no question that my most impassioned adversaries have been the members of organized feminist groups. The vitriol of their rhetoric has gone unmatched. Of course, so has their hypocrisy. Apparently, it is easy to blame the patriarchy for all of your woes, and to silence your opponents with accusations of misogyny, but it is more difficult to actually deny oneself the pleasures of cavorting with said patriarchy's handsome sons. I will never forget the fateful evening when I encountered the leader of one prominent women's organization emerging from the anteroom...
...know, I don't really care about politics right now," Giuliani said last week, and no one could blame him for that. But with its nominating convention just two weeks away, the state G.O.P. cares a great deal about politics. Republican leaders from Pataki on down were publicly supporting Giuliani while privately worrying about who would replace him. Some Republicans dream that Pataki might get into the race--the popular Governor would be the favorite against Hillary--but he has shut down such talk. That makes the odds-on favorite Representative Rick Lazio, the tousle-haired Long Islander who wanted...
China has no intention of forgetting the past. Indeed, its own complicity in its downfall as a great power makes it useful to blame others. China faced famine repeatedly not because of its enormous population but because of the actions of its leaders. Turning this painful history into a positive asset by stoking smoldering resentments and nationalism can be an effective way for China to get more from negotiations with Washington than it otherwise would. It can also hold the country together as the Communist Party crumbles...