Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...former Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney is forced to explain an embarrassing Congressional vote or Halliburton corporate policy...
Fineberg, formerly the dean of the School of Public Health, co-chaired a committee of health policy experts and academics that released a report on the topic last month, and he attended briefings in Washington to explain...
...other thing that strikes me is the way that Gore has beat up the guy without seeming to be too mean. He's able to drop little depth charges with lines like: "Let me explain to you...." He's able to get W. off stride without seeming to be the heavy...
...face, neck and torso. "He was essentially beaten from the top of his head down to his ankles," says Kent Spence, his mother's attorney. "He died of positional and compressional asphyxia." The autopsy found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his system, but not enough to explain his outburst, Spence says. Though the coroner ruled the death a homicide because Burton died at the hands of others, federal prosecutors say they cannot prove criminal intent. Yet many questions remain: What was wrong with Jonathan Burton? Was his killing a horrible accident or a case of vigilante malice? And what...
...intensity of the violence that has followed has been a resounding rejection on the Palestinian streets of U.S. and Israeli ideas on the future sovereignty over the Holy City. And the religious passion fueling that rejection - "jihad" (holy war) is the explanation most commonly cited by Palestinian demonstrators to explain their actions - will make it exceedingly difficult even for Arafat to bring them to a halt. Not that he'll be in any hurry to: The violence has graphically underlined his point that the Palestinians, too, have red lines on Jerusalem over which they can't be pushed...