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The 1996 elections had no sooner sloughed into despond than I came across the following sentence in an election-eve wrap-up by Michael Lewis in the New Republic . "There is no denying," Lewis wrote, in the finale to an antic "Campaign Journal" series that saw him parting the crowds around various presidential entourages with the prosthetic assistance of a television Steadycam on his shoulder, "that I was excited by working alongside Ted Koppel, driven less by a Fallovian desire to inform the public than a lust to become rich and famous."
Unlike Hillary, Eleanor ignored personal insults, sloughed off negative news."
During migration, more cells than normal were sloughed off and left behind in the slime trail.
Meanwhile, the Times sloughed its Old Gray Lady persona for the daredevilry that was the Post franchise.