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House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spurned Democratic entreaties to offer Clinton a plea bargain short of impeachment.
And indeed, my husband and I spurned the courtly generalist for an up-to-date internist, highly recommended by a more senior associate at the top Washington law firm my husband had joined.
His screenplay ideas in the company of the muse are pathetically feeble, and when she encourages them--and when they find favor with Steven's agent and the executives who'd previously spurned him--the point seems to be that everyone in the film industry is a moron.
When his women unexpectedly wake up, like Galatea in his "Pygmalion" series or the spurned lover emerging from the almond tree in (1881-82, Merseyside), it's often disconcerting, and the men look as though they should have let sleeping maidens lie.
"In matters of international relations, the United States is one nation," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as he spurned reporters' questions on l'affaire Lewinsky two weeks ago.