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McCain's cleverest strategy has been to associate the anger story with his POW ordeal.
I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.
The conventional wisdom says Clinton should waive his defense and avoid calling witnesses in order to shorten the trial and end his "ordeal."
The WP reports that even an Iraqi newspaper owned by Saddam Hussein's son has joined the global grief for King Hussein: "Our hearts are with our brave people in Jordan who we hope will overcome this ordeal."
You'd think Petersen would have fun staging an airborne showdown, but there's not a scene in Air Force One that wasn't done 10 times better in the underrated Kurt Russell hijacked-airplane thriller, Executive Decision . That movie had the good sense to leave its absurd politics (first Chechen, then Middle Eastern) on the margins, and to focus instead on the scary ordeal of being stuck on a plane piloted by crazies.