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Zaillian is at his most assured when he cuts back and forth between Facher's Harvard Law School lectures on what not to do in court and Schlichtmann's fumbling prosecution.
McLaughlin displayed a statistic claiming the sanctions had contributed to the deaths of as many as 1.4-million Iraqi civilians since the end of Gulf War I. That, of course, set off a squabble about the validity of the numbers and a fumbling calculus of how many lives had been saved from chemical and biological warfare by keeping Saddam "in his box" since 1990.
George W. ought to keep his distance from the Washington establishment, according to an analysis . Bush might be tarred by the congressional GOP's fumbling of the gun and budget battles.
One of the reasons for Russian persistence, says the paper, is that the Russian military is trying to reverse the fumbling image it picked up from the 1994-95 attempt to best the Chechens.
And while it is true that no author, no matter how accomplished, ever ceases to struggle with the craft of writing, there is surely a difference between that stage when one is fumbling around, trying to discover if one can even be a writer, and the stage where one is fully confident of addressing the world as nothing but a writer, because one is as compelled to write as to breathe.