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That dignity has been much squandered by Clinton, but this is a chance for Starr to protect what remains.
"It is we who have squandered the public trust, we who have time and again placed our personal or partisan interest before the national interest, earning the public's contempt with our poll-driven policies, our phony posturing, the lies we call spin.
Yet, as a Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American, I am made to feel about not doing business in China they way Ken Griffey Jr. might have felt if he had never gone into baseball: like someone who squandered an inheritance, who failed to capitalize on a rare alignment of circumstance and skill.
One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.
Howard Hughes sped around the world by plane, and Ted Turner has squandered plenty of his millions on America's Cup yachts.