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Technology will never end the tug of war.
Elián has been roped into someone else's game: He is the center of an "international tug of war" in the WP lede and a front-page LAT caption, and the "center of a political tug-of-war" in the USAT . The NYT turns him into "the central object in a tug-of-war."
Hence it comes as no surprise to find in the town of Exeter a lowland called Tug Hollow .
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance.
The impeachment fight began when the Republicans, in their tug of war with Johnson, passed some dubious laws that shifted power from the president to Congress.