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Bradley's game plan, however, has been highly effective, and he has much to lose by being derailed from it.
On This Week , Birch focused on civil rights and job discrimination, only to be derailed by George Will's first question: "Does basic, equal, civil rights include the right to marry?"
Regarding Omagh, Britain's Sunday People said that last year's bombing by the splinter group Real IRA could easily have derailed the peace process, but "the desire for peace was too strong for one breakaway IRA group to torpedo it.
(It's probably safe to assume that Lewinsky herself has turned down the $2 million that Bob Guccione offered her to pose for Penthouse , according to the New York Post .) Even though it was the Star , back in 1992, that almost derailed Bill Clinton's candidacy with its revelation of his affair with Gennifer Flowers ("He introduced me to things I've never done before, like oral sex"), none of the tabs came up with new women or other bombshells this time.
However, publicity about Moussaoui's arrest and a possible hijacking threat might have derailed the plot.