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Times . "1) publicly disparage all investigators as partisan miscreants, as Clinton now does; 2) encourage co-conspirators to resist prosecutorial pressure by arranging for hush money; and 3) hint at post-election pardons."
Living in Washington, it's hard to resist the temptation.
Lacking the solidarity to unite and too weak to resist by themselves, Italian kingdoms and duchies were reduced to convenient pawns in Europe’s 18th-century dynastic power plays.
I can't resist mentioning a related issue.
We all know that young parents can't resist these fashions any more than they can resist the new clothing styles that come along, but where will it all end?