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Jeff--brilliantly fulfilling the ancient journalistic dictum "Sell every piece three times"--has argued in the New Republic , the New York Times , and this week in Time magazine that Clinton's troubles are due to catastrophic defects in the sexual-harassment and special-prosecutor laws (with help from Clinton's own misbehavior, he always is careful to add).
It's as though after wrestling long and hard with Cézanne's dictum that the artist should paint the world of nature in terms of spheres, cylinders, and cones, Léger realized: Hey, here's an environment that's actually made of these shapes!
Hewing to the journalistic dictum to "sell every piece twice," Mark Shields has perfected the art of recycling his own sound bites.
Arrow's second dictum is that there should be no flip-flops.
But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.