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As Madeleine Albright arrived in the Middle East to join the tense Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, various commentators in the Arab press drew parallels between the current state of Arab politics and the indiscipline, score-settling, and violence that marred the two-week biennial Pan-Arab Games which ended Tuesday in Amman, Jordan.
A good point, but marred when Ignatius, trying to tie up his column too neatly with a bow made from the day's news, adds Hurricane Floyd to his list.
Another of dad's embarrassing failures might cause me to slip back into the alcoholic fog that marred my childhood, had any such fog actually existed, which it did not.
President Clinton's visit to Greece was marred (or enlivened, depending on your point of view) by what the New York Times described as "virulent anti-American protests."
Critics call the subject of the film inherently intriguing but complain that it has been "marred by the Burnsian sensibility, ...