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When he attempted to restore national pride by wresting the Suez Canal out of British hands he suffered an embarrassing diplomatic defeat and, at home, unrest turned to opposition.
Not improper on its face, it leads to embarrassing moments when people yell Jim as I walk away, not even suspecting they are talking to me.
It has been widely reported that Seven Years in Tibet , the tale of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's trek through Tibet and his relationship with the Dalai Lama, was nearly released with an embarrassing omission.
The WSJ reports that on Wednesday night, the Judiciary Democrats got their hands on General Accounting Office figures on Ken Starr's office expenditures, which, a congressional source is quoted as saying, are potentially embarrassing, in that they detail payments for consultants and outside investigators.
These revelations were "embarrassing" to Clinton's opponents, wrote the Washington Post . The Sun-Times quoted Rahm Emanuel, Stephanopoulos' successor, on the revelation: "From Day One I always thought this was politically motivated and had politics written all over it; after five years, it is nice to have the truth catch up with the president's political opponents."