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The NYT says that the day's solemn mood was "somewhat tarnished" by reports that Clinton planned an all-out drive to help Democrats win back the House.
The NYT reports that New York University, contending that its name is being tarnished, has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of a sexually explicit Web site that features a secret camera purportedly spying on scantily- but NYU-logoed-clad women students romping in their dormitory.
Extreme fighting was tarnished when fighters from the other ultimate fighting operation, the now-defunct Battlecade, were arrested for violating Canadian prizefighting laws when they fought on an Indian reservation outside Montreal.
It is a sorry tale from which he emerges a diminished, tarnished figure."
"But the fact is, there is not a single major reform that was not begun by [former Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev and at least slightly tarnished or rolled back under Yeltsin.