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When they broke, torrents of mud and rock tore down the valleys and through the villages and towns along the river banks.
That's the name of the sister who never made it out of Vietnam--who at age 15, drowned when bullets tore through the boat in which she was trying to escape.
According to the Journal 's Dorothy Rabinowitz, Broaddrick says Clinton tore her pantyhose during the 1978 encounter, "held her down forcibly and bit her lips," leaving them "swollen to double their size," and tried to apologize 13 years later, just before announcing his campaign for president.
Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that "the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent."
Further evidence: At the end of the match, when Brandi Chastain tore off her shirt, ABC did not go to a split-screen shot of the president drooling.