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Luckily, this draconian system is beginning to crumble. Something akin to a political revolt has erupted in the House, where a former Mcgee ally is challenging him for the House Speakership in January and may actually succeed. McGee has already softened his leadership style, agreed to some rules reforms, and opened up the debate--a move that resulted in an unprecedented five-week debate over the budget, rather than the usual rubber stamp of the leadership proposal...
...instead on notes written at the dining room table at 5:30 a.m. or after a vigorous 15-hour day of campaigning. Were Cuomo a more fluid and captivating writer, the diary form would have been acceptable, but Mario is no Hunter S. Thompson, and his prose is more akin to a connect-the-dots game than a straight narrative line. Though the account is quite lively when describing Cuomo's and Koch's battle down to the wire for the Democratic nomination, the diary form is woefully inadequate when it comes to shedding light on events, motivations, and philosophies...
...intense scrutiny, both at home and in Washington. At issue is the four-year-old U.S.-backed attempt to bring about social change in El Salvador and undercut support for Marxist-led insurgency among the country's 2.3 million rural inhabitants. The means: a sweeping land-reform program, akin to the one attempted by the U.S. in Viet Nam from 1970 to 1975, that aims at a radical transfer of scarce acreage from El Salvador's former feudal oligarchy to the majority of poor campesinos. The program, says a Western diplomat in San Salvador, is "essentially a socialistic...
...Hanover, the fourth-largest U.S. bank, was reported to be scrambling frantically to raise cash abroad because it was no longer able to get money in the U.S. Other American banks, or so the stories had it, also faced new dangers. Then, with little more provocation than that, something akin to a panic began to spread. It swept like a spring twister through markets that were already tense and jittery about the health of the American financial system after the narrow escape from failure a week earlier of Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank...
...Normandy veterans who come back for the first time, the experience often brings a bewildering rush of emotional crosscurrents: nostalgia for the pride and purpose they felt as young soldiers mixed with something akin to guilt for having survived when death randomly took so many friends. At Omaha Beach, where the water's edge turned red from American blood, returning veterans remember the deafening roar of battle, the smoke and confusion. All they can hear now is the lap of a low surf, the keening of seagulls and occasionally the shouts of children playing on the beach. The puzzle...