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Kate O'Beirne (CNN's Capital Gang ) and Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) think that Clinton wants Annan to negotiate a "fig leaf," permitting the United States to bow out of war while retaining some shred of credibility.
Moreover, the same reasoning says that it makes not a shred of difference whether I bid early or late.
In short, if hers was to remain the clowning achievement, it was time for me to shred my list—and not a moment to swoon.
At the beginning of the year he finds, or imagines, a tiny shred of second-rate love with his call girl/deer, and later on finds, or imagines, an even tinier shred of a preposterous less-than-love with his child-girlfriend.
The scene evokes the gracious life, even if it doesn't quite translate to the real world: As dog owners know, the family pet--if it fetches the newspaper--is as likely to shred it as to deliver it.