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Clinton's misadventure put lesser issues in perspective: The pope's visit to Cuba, the defiant Saddam Hussein, the Korea bailout.
The Times does not spare the "most embarrassing" details of what it portrays as a misadventure, including the fact that a 29-year-old commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army stood Dole up, leaving him to wrangle over the telephone with another guerilla leader.
Other appointments are never proposed and political campaigns are never launched (in addition to those that are famously derailed, like Gary Hart's) because of the threat that some sexual misadventure will become front-page news.
Many pundits pick on Gore's canoeing misadventure in New Hampshire, in which local authorities dumped seven million gallons of water into a dried-out-riverbed for a Gore photo-op (unbenownst to the Gore campaign).
In early September it will be my privilege to personally contact any members of the Board of Visitors or Alumni Board who through misadventure, oversight, procrastination or the pendency of personal bankruptcy proceedings have not made some pledge or contribution, however large or small, to our school.