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In the toy-store scene, for instance, Oskar says of a neighbor who also took part in the great national pogrom, though he wasn't in that particular store: "Meyn was not there," he says, "just as the ones who were there were not somewhere else"--a swipe at all the Germans who claimed not to have been around whenever Nazi crimes took place.
The WP says that the cosmonaut's in-orbit performance has become Russia's Topic A. The country's papers have been all over him, and upon his return, Boris Yeltsin took a swipe at him as well.
But it's the WP , in an inside story, which observes that Clinton in his brief remarks eulogizing Chiles seemed to take an oblique swipe at Russell Feingold, the lone Senate Democrat to vote against the White House in the past two days.
In the course of her protest, she takes her second swipe in recent weeks at feminist writer Naomi Wolf and notes that "Susan Estrich, a leading feminist, top expert on rape law, campaign manager for Michael Dukakis's Presidential bid and the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review, has written a screenplay with her husband, Marty Kaplan, about a prostitute who teaches her two girlfriends how to lure and hang on to men by learning erotic techniques."
Likewise, Buchanan, until now not known as a friend of Asian immigrants, sheds crocodile tears for the Japanese-Americans interned during World War II--apparently so he can take another swipe at Franklin Roosevelt.