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...budget deficit and drove up interest rates. Gingrich and his followers disagreed, but at the same time admitted that theirs was less a governing agenda than a battle plan. They showed the Democrats what they will be up against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority leader. Like Gingrich, the G.O.P. hopefuls see themselves as mujahedin and Clinton as the Great Satan. As a smiling Gingrich told Clinton...
...enough to serve as an epigraph to the novel: "Mates are not always matches, and matches are not always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing a mother and a wife arouses "uproarious laughter...
...collaborate. I thought it was something that could have pulled him out of the frame of mind he was in and get him to a place where positive stuff was going on." Stipe started writing the lyrics to Let Me In before Cobain's death and finished the song afterward. Stipe also dedicated the new album to another personal friend -- actor River Phoenix, who died last year...
...watched as hundreds of Japanese schoolchildren -- a newly minted generation in their navy-and-white uniforms -- poured out of the Peace Memorial Museum. The Japanese authorities take children there every day, busload after busload, to see the evidence: the photographs taken on Aug. 6, 1945, and the days afterward; the drawings that the child survivors made to show what they had seen; the blinding thousand-sun light; the river choked with bodies; the melted clocks; the nuclear soot that fell upon the city -- "black rain." These sights are implanted in the minds of today's Japanese children as What? Warning...
Like MacArthur returning to the Phillipines, so did Dan Quayle return to the San Fransisco Commonwealth Club. The club was the site of the infamous Murphy Brown speech, a seeming fiasco that led to the pilloring of Quayle for months afterward. Now Quayle feels vindicated, and with reason...