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What few shreds of real-life credibility remained after that plot twist were destroyed by cameos from C-grade celebrities (Tammy Faye Messner?
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.
Left-leaning critics such as historian Jackson Lears, writing in the New Republic , say that the widespread adoption of Taylor's theories amounted to "a horror story" in which cold-blooded management stripped workers of their last shreds of autonomy.
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.
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.