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The Post barely brushes this topic, speculating that the investigators may have concluded the tragedy resulted from a decision by the entire crew.
Except the lawyers have traded their fine brushes for broad ones--paint rollers, perhaps--and the Microsoft case appears even smaller than it did before.
The summit, "with its all-night sessions and constant brushes with disaster, was a setting in which Clinton's penchant for keeping all the balls in the air at once seemed to thrive," said the Post . "Clinton relied on a personal style of charm, persistence, and language that could be artfully imprecise," particularly when Netanyahu sought his assurance that the United States would release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
These spooky events, which have been going on since October 2, feature everything from a Chain Saw Drill Team lurking outside the haunted houses to a deranged dentist who brushes with unsuspecting visitors.
There are cases filled with elaborate and witty helmets from the early 17 th century, shaped like the knobby turbo seashell or with rabbit ears appended; swords designed more to impress than to kill; saddles decorated with such whimsical and hardly threatening motifs as powder puffs and cosmetic brushes.