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However, the following year, ambitious, young Captain Juan de Grijalva discovered the island of Cozumel and skirted the coast of the peninsula, hearing tales from the Indians of the great civilization of the Aztecs.
Writing in USA Today, sometime Slate contributor Walter Shapiro laments that Bush's remarks were over-rehearsed and "totally skirted such contentious issues as public schools run on a for-profit basis and the merits of teaching to ace tests."
The LAT lead editorial says that with this story, Starr's office "appears once again to have skirted legal proprieties and invited further disrespect for its motives by clumsily trying to manipulate the political climate."
George Bush skirted congressional war powers in Panama and denied that they applied to the Iraq war.
In his recent public statements, he has skirted this issue entirely.