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The papers read the Japanese returns--described by USAT and the Wall Street Journal as "stunning" and by the NYT as a "brutal drubbing"--as the electorate's impatience with Hashimoto's ineffectual response to Japan's worse recession in fifty years.
A piece explains the drubbing Gen.
While engaging in his regular drubbing of Bill Clinton, William Safire today along the way actually gives him some very practical advice: under pain of a Senate trial, sign a very tough censure deal, and pay off everybody's legal fees by auctioning off the pen.
Mondrian's later offerings came in for a drubbing, though his early representational work appears popular.
So where did he get this uncanny ability to whine exactly like an American pro athlete after an unexpected drubbing?