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America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, derided by al Qaeda as "your agents."
The NYT notes that the $500-a-child tax credit that President Clinton fought so hard to get into the deal was the "crown jewel of the Republicans' 1994 Contract With America," and that in boasting yesterday about the bill's college subsidies, Republicans were referring to the same feature they "had derided a few months ago as a device for little more than tuition inflation."
Warm praise was bestowed by the left-leaning Paris newspaper Libération on the often derided paintings by Sir Winston Churchill, of which the auction house Sotheby's staged an exhibition in London this week.
For months, critics have derided Disney's plans to clean up Times Square as mere Disneyfication.
Once upon a time, Republicans derided Clinton for fantasizing that in order to win forgiveness, he first had to find a way to forgive his enemies.