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It was then, after all, that Clinton and Lewinsky began their affair.)
Portillo, who is seeking re-election to Parliament and is widely seen as an eventual contender for the party leadership, said he wanted to put an end to untrue rumors about his sex life--one being that he had a homosexual affair with another former Conservative minister--by instead volunteering the truth.
The final straw was surely the grotesque affair of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life . This book came close to claiming that, given your genes, it makes no difference to your economic success whether you grew up in Scarsdale or the South Bronx.
With self-determination, pursuit of excellence and a love affair with skiing, Miyares went from a bumbling beginner on the bunny (low and slow beginner) slope to exceeding 63 miles per hour to rank as the number one B-1 (totally blind) downhill skier in the world.
The USA Today headline probably reflects what most people heard: "Clinton: Affair was 'Wrong'"--but it's not what Clinton said, because, as the NYT 's James Bennet points out in the second paragraph of his paper's lead story, the president never used the word "affair."