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Her beloved father, Elliott Roosevelt, is a kind-hearted drunk who dies at 34, hounded to the grave by a sadistic and mentally warped elder brother, who (perhaps smarting at having been outshone by Elliott in his youth) slanders him in public, fleeces him out of his money, turns his family against him, and seeks to get him institutionalized.
Liberals are still smarting over the fact that he signed the welfare-reform bill.
Speaking of the Los Angeles Times , said paper, still smarting from the Staples Center scandal, in which it published a special issue of its Sunday magazine on the opening of the new arena and split the magazine's profits with the arena, published a special section Saturday morning in which it printed in eight-point type the names of all the "members" of its "Millennium registry."
Smarting from losses in the Bosnian war and from the collapse of the Serbian economy, opposition parties took to the streets in the winter of 1996 to demand Milosevic's resignation.
The island’s tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.