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According to the story, there have been a dozen cases of DOD embezzlement in recent years, featuring such dodges as clerks creating fictitious contracts and then honoring them--with checks to themselves.
In Paris, Le Monde said that if Clinton tried "to fend off the questioning with dodges similar to the one about fellatio and penetration, he will founder in ridicule.
To Michael Kinsley's on-the-mark "" about linguistic dodges served up by "thoughtful" commentators on the conflict in Kosovo, let me contribute the following, perhaps the grandest of them all--the congressional resolution of "support for our troops."
Whereas the LAT lead's headline says Russia is "amid crisis," a Wall Street Journal front-page feature runs under the header: "Resilient Russia Dodges Calamities Predicted After Ruble's Collapse."
A WSJ front-page piece makes the point that while political debate about the IRS portrays it as abusing taxpayers, in the world of corporate finance, it's the IRS that's the underdog, waging a constant war against a stream of ingenious and complicated new tax dodges.