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...difficult because every actor in the production played a preassigned role in a drama with a preordained ending. And because Starr--though he tried to portray himself as an earnest public servant guided only by his reverence for the law--couldn't help veering, sometimes coyly, into political finger wagging. In the middle of his sober presentation there was Starr embracing the three Democratic Senators--Pat Moynihan, Bob Kerrey and Joe Lieberman--who had dared go to the floor in August to say that Clinton's private behavior was a public offense...
...crack shot, has hunted turkey and pheasant with shotguns and deer with bow and arrow. But in New York State, he cannot legally go after deer with a gun until he is 16. That doesn't matter today. Glenn is excited but silent, testing the wind with a wet finger, flicking his eyes through the woods like any good hunter, alert to motion...
...listed above, he covers Harvard's struggling party scene, issues in his own social life and even the inappropriate behavior of a former employer. How about world hunger? Or the spotted owl? Society might be experiencing moral decay, but Friedland needs to find a more reasonable target for his finger pointing and name-calling...
...hour days and spends Sundays making lists of issues he wants to tackle. He has a keen eye for the domestic politics that shape foreign policy and offers up a range of views leading to different options. That satisfies the President's need to keep his own finger on the trigger...
...laser is used to shoot a minuscule hole through the muscle. (Zapping the heart in synch minimizes potential fibrillation by keeping time with the heartbeats.) The 30 to 45 wounds on the outside of the heart close up almost instantly, with help from pressure by the surgeon's finger. But the channels created inside the muscle remain open--at least for a little while. Patients have reported feeling immediate relief from chest pain, probably because blood seeps up the laser channels and nourishes the oxygen-starved heart muscle...