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Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Rahm Emanuel complain of Starr's "slash-and-burn tactics" (Rangel, Face the Nation ) and his "innuendo, rumor, lies, and leaks" (Emanuel, PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). Clinton aide Paul Begala is asked seven times by the persistent Tim Russert (NBC's Meet the Press ) why the president has yet to give a full account of his dealings with Monica Lewinsky.
But the LAT front-page piece offers an explanation: the move signifies the "demise of the slash-and-burn turnarounds of the 90s."
For example, many farmers still clear land by the ancient method of slash-and-burn, in which forest is chopped, left to dry, and then burned.
They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
They were peaceful and lived by “slash-and-burn” farming.