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Although it was Elbow Patch and Tweed Day at the committee, the NYT shows that often the academic witnesses were just foils for members' speechifying.
But Starr foils both sides.
Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
Ed Bryant, R-Tenn., tries to get her to implicate Clinton in subornation of perjury--particularly in a Dec. 17, 1997, phone call and a Dec. 28, 1997, meeting--she repeatedly foils Bryant's plan not with lies but with Clintonesque verbal tricks.