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There's a protest everywhere ."--New York Mayor Giuliani is either reading from his new children's book or displaying his trademark dismissiveness and contempt for citizens who disagree with him, in this case street vendors he's throwing out of work.
And the NYT , WP , and LAT fronts all report that the House committee investigating 1996 Clinton campaign finance practices voted yesterday to hold Janet Reno in contempt of Congress.
Pundits agreed that materially the ruling is just a slap on the wrist (and therefore Clinton won't appeal it) but that symbolically it's a huge blow to his legacy, since he's the first president to be held in contempt of court.
While training for a career as an officer in the late 1920s, he displayed fashionable contempt for the Weimar Republic.
In "", Chatterbox writes, "the hallmarks of Lapham's style are a magnificent contempt for mankind's folly and an apparent conviction that the United States is reenacting the last days of Rome."