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Because property follows people, natural disasters have become more destructive: A storm that rips through Florida today shreds many more houses than it would have in 1970.
Time 's cover story is more restrained: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ("makes Ken Starr look like a patsy") would rip her to shreds, and it's not clear she even wants to run.
Love shreds her own credibility," says the New York Times ' Jon Pareles.
Other times, he looked to love and tried to put a little flesh on his spiritual creations, in an effort to endow his poor, suffering Jews with at least a few shreds of a romantic life.
If Jones is telling the truth to any significant degree, Clinton should find a way to settle the case as quickly and as quietly as possible, keeping intact as many shreds of dignity as he has left.