Word: backseaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep on the car's backseat. Jesse Haus, a white woman reporter for a local daily, picks up the story on her police scanner. To her, as to the detective, it seems fishy. What was Brenda doing at Armstrong Houses? Buying drugs? But she sticks to her story...
...Island, N.Y., are Ted's beautiful wife Marion and daughter Ruth, 4. And there are hundreds of framed photographs on the walls depicting the Cole sons Thomas and Timothy. They were 17 and 15 when they were killed, five years earlier, in a car crash. Their parents, in the backseat, survived unhurt but devastated...
...Starr succeeds in nailing Clinton, can there be any doubt that prosecutorial revenge will await the next Republican President? I fear the governance of the U.S. will take a backseat to political guerrilla warfare of the nastiest sort. JAY SMITH Lexington, Mass...
...people as a relief after five years of the Big Smoothy. In the year 2000, Republicans are cutting one another up in the primaries; the party is hopelessly entangled in the public mind with these right-wing squirrels who set up people to snoop on the President's backseat activities. Gore sails into the election as a commanding figure--the 43rd President...
...21st century will have to take a backseat to Senate tradition. That's the lesson Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) learned last week when his request to bring a computer to the floor for note taking was soundly rejected by the Rules Committee. "We didn't start out with laptops," says chairman John Warner (R., Va.), "and I don't think...