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It's a metaphor for our vainly putting our faith in modern technology instead of centuries-old superstition.
Hillary Clinton was the personality who most interested the Italian newspapers at Sunday's "Third Way" summit conference in Florence, where the leaders of the United States, Brazil, and various European countries vainly sought a common political platform for the world's parties of the center-left.
In a series of long interviews with me a year ago (for Worth magazine), I tried, vainly, to get Arthur to tell me how his ideas about increasing returns have encouraged a new strain of economic investigations.
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
Monica Lewinsky took such obvious delight in regaling us with details of her encounters with her sexual soulmate--her wide eyes crinkling happily, her full mouth struggling vainly against a triumphant grin at the impressive number of times he called--you felt you'd wandered into Lord of the Flies, the female version . What adultless colony did this girl come from?