... has done things with relative impunity that would have been huge uproars if they had occurred under Clinton. Take it from someone who made a living writing about those uproars."" James Warren, then Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, offered a harsher assessment after the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner turned from satirical roast to presidential love fest. "It was the ... perfect example of all the sucking up to Bush that's been going on every day in this town since he was elected,"" growled Warren, whose paper endorsed Bush in November 2000. "We have b...

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... an episode that dramatized all their worst fears of dark suffocation. Two British captives were said to have survived only by sucking the sweat off their shirts. Sixteen-year-old Mary Carey was rumored to have stayed alive--while her husband, her mother and her 10-year-old sister all died--by drinking her own tears. One year after the Black ... , including two members of Parliament, to sit above the company directors. This was the first step that would eventually lead to the raj, the period of official British government control. Warren Hastings (p. 54), the first Governor General, could...

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