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The neighborhood is named for the main beach in town, Los Muertos (the Dead) — however, the city fathers prefer a kinder, gentler nomenclature, and have unsuccessfully tried to rename it “Zona Romántica,” and the beach, “Playa del Sol” (just so you’ll know when you see the many street signs).
True to form, Clinton also triangulated some Republican issues, most notably a proposal to end the "marriage penalty" as part of a $250 billion, 10-year tax cut (about the same amount as he unsuccessfully pushed last year, the Journal notes) and a plan to encourage charitable contributions through tax incentives.
The mainstream Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) recently formed a coalition with extreme separatist parties, prompting Aznar to compare the party's attitude with that of the British and French prime ministers in 1938, who tried, unsuccessfully, to stop Hitler with [territorial] concessions to avoid World War II."
William Kennedy Smith, their cousin, went out on the town with Uncle Teddy, brought home a woman, and ended up being tried unsuccessfully for rape.
There's very little more until a Susan Smith-type tragedy in 1991, when a soccer mom in California got so stressed out that she shot her two daughters and then tried, unsuccessfully, to kill herself.