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From the start they have made it clear that the scent of scandal wafting through the corridors of the White House will not for a single moment distract them from fulsome support for the commander in chief as he faces down the Butcher of Baghdad.
The fact that Duvall gives such a glorious performance in The Apostle is likely to distract people from the fact that he has also written and directed a glorious movie--the most vivid and radiantly made of 1997.
USA Today , the New York Times and the WP all run President Clinton's forceful response to the suggestion made previously by senior Republicans that he ordered the airstrikes to distract from the drive to impeachment: "I don't think any serious person would believe that any president would do such a thing."
The paper goes on to quote Clinton responding yesterday by accusing the Republicans of trying to distract the American people from the GOP record.
Where Swayambhunath is cluttered with monuments in different styles, at Boudhanath there are no other temples to distract pilgrims.