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Perhaps Clinton's enemies needn't bother laboring to make the Lewinsky mess the touchstone of his presidency.
@ This vision became a touchstone for decisions as to program governance, delivery issues, including office staffing, support, training, technology, and increased access to high quality legal advice, brief service and more extensive legal representation.
The movie, The Insider , which is about CBS's suppression of a 60 Minutes interview with a tobacco-industry whistleblower, is being released by Miramax's sister company, Touchstone.
For Bin Ladin's confrontation with the Saudi regime, see, e.g., Peter L. Bergen, Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Ladin (Touchstone, 2001), pp. 80-82.
Burne-Jones' lovers seem always in freeze frame, like the frustrated couple in that Pre-Raphaelite touchstone, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/ Though winning near the goal."