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In other front-page news--rather, news of the front page--the Monica story retreated inside for the first time in weeks.
Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.
In any case, it was in 1925, the year of his marriage, that Bonnard first painted his wife full-length in the bathtub, where she retreated for hours at a time every day.
Mr Clinton has retreated into the semantic ambiguities for which his presidency has become infamous."
The Turks in turn retreated to the island when they came under threat from Cretan rebels at the end of the 19th century.