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USA TODAY's front section main story makes the point that although the conventional wisdom is that Bill Clinton's health care proposal was a colossal failure, he has actually in the past two years gotten Congress to pass many provisions congenial to its concepts, one bill at a time.
The colossal statues are overwhelming, the delicate grace of the tomb paintings breathtaking, the pyramids prodigious, and the huge temple complexes positively Herculean.
From the ticket office you enter the temple complex through a colossal pylon, one of the most recent structures at the site and the largest constructed anywhere in Egypt during the Ptolemaic period.
Programs like "All Star" are colossal wastes of time that make teen-agers hate school because they emphasize exactly what they attempt to eliminate.
"The central question," wrote Times correspondent Nicholas D. Kristof in his Hong Kong dispatch, "is whether Hong Kong amounts to a colossal Trojan horse: a prize so glorious that China's Communists cannot leave it outside the gates but which, once inside, will destroy those in power" with its irrepressible example of roiling capitalism and affluence, and its concentrated economic power.