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The LAT cites one argument Democrats wielded, but to no avail: when the House Ethics committee reprimanded Newt Gingrich last year, he was given an advance copy of the report.
The Times itself is oddly silent about some relevant context though, never noting that the sort of speculative psychological explanation indulged in here by the Air Force is strikingly similar to that wielded by the Navy when, in its initial official report on the disastrous gunnery explosion aboard the Iowa , it posited a crewmember's gay-tinged suicide.
They won't be able to become thin again by leaving the country either: the new rules are more in line with those wielded elsewhere.
He wielded immense power, but who recalls a single thing he wrote today, especially compared with the memorable work of James Agee or Andrew Sarris or, above all, Pauline Kael?
But the instruments it has to do this with are blunt compared with the authority it wielded two decades ago.