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"This is the week Dan Burton imploded," announces Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). What's more, absent Burton's stupidity, the Hubbell tapes would have been a slam-dunk GOP victory, leading Gigot to charge Burton with "political malpractice."
Impressive as Teide is, it is basically no more than a peak on the edge of a giant volcano which long ago erupted or imploded.
Hawi had also come to detest the willingness of his fellow thinkers to become rented mouthpieces for Lebanon's myriad parties and militias, to cheer as the country imploded.
But even there, he recollected, the walls shook and a telephone slid off his desk as the twin towers of the former World Trade Center imploded and collapsed.