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"I've taken a lot of unpopular positions," he conceded on Fox News Sunday .
Yes, Ruff conceded, Clinton had clammed up about the details, but this was merely "an effort to preserve the dignity of the office" in the wake of the indignities to which Clinton had subjected it.
The NYT reports on its front that officials haven't given up hope but conceded that "chances of success would be diminishingly slim if they are unable to hear from the robotic spacecraft in a test on Sunday."
A panel of scientists conceded that a planned robot mission to Mars might bring back harmful alien microorganisms . But the scientists said it's very unlikely that Martian germs could do much damage here, since they probably can't compete with Earth's own germs.
While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."