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...waking hour to political calculation. He knows Morris will take care of that. He can concentrate on being the benevolent father that Americans--and his own self-image and strategy--seem to require. As Morris once told Clinton biographer David Maraniss, Clinton needs to be engaged in "some important, valiant fight for the good of the world to lend coherence and structure to his life. When he didn't have those fights, he would eat away at himself, he would become depressed, paranoid, surly and, one suspects, escapist." Morris neutralizes that side of Clinton--and makes this presidency possible...
...full of dubious achievements such as conducting illegal invasions, training death squads, engaging in economic sabotage and toppling democratically-elected governments, is frequently presented in a much different light. Professors or instructors who speak frankly about such incidents are scarce--most will parrot government propaganda about America's valiant struggle to promote democracy and free markets overseas. For instance, in discussions about the Vietnam War, students are asked to view the situation from the perspective of American leaders--many of them Harvard men--and to see how these men had almost no choice but to escalate the conflict. More disturbing...
...illness, diagnosed as diabetes, got progressively worse, his parents enlisted the aid of the Christian Science practitioners--not medical doctors--who sat with Ian and led the family in reading hymns. Despite these valiant efforts, Ian died. Medical experts testified during the trial that a routine shot of insulin would have saved Ian's life...
...Crimson put up a valiant effort down the stretch cutting an 11-point Dartmouth lead to five behind six Tim Hill points. But the team came up short as lonergan closed out the scoring with four clutch free throws in the final 16 seconds--he was a perfect 11 of 11 from the charity stripe for the night. Dartmouth ..70 Harvard...
...what some Democrats now consider a pathological pattern, Clinton distanced himself from an achievement he had long defended: the 1993 budget deal he sold as a valiant attempt to cut the deficit, lower interest rates and make the tax system more progressive. What looked courageous two years ago was looking costly last week when Clinton stood before a well-heeled crowd of donors in Houston. And so he abandoned text and principle and ad-libbed a confession. "Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget because you think I raised your taxes too much...