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...feature several opportunities to yell "Hullabaloo!" Benefits for students would include the President's annual Commencement Holler and overall friendlier staff ("Hi, my name is Domna Sue"). Dining hall meals would be patterned after Elvis' favorites in his last years at Graceland, including Fried chicken, Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Fried pies and Fried frying oil. And, of course, if country music had stayed on in the Northeast, "Yale" would still just be a verb ("I tole Domna Sue to hurry up with them fried pertaters, but 'course she didn't, so I had to yale...
Other documents turned over to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee by Bob Dole's presidential campaign further erode Norquist's protestations of independence. R.N.C. deputy finance director and close Dole adviser Jo-Anne Coe directed a $100,000 contribution to Norquist's group from banana baron Carl Lindner two weeks before the election. "Keep up the good work," she wrote Norquist. Norquist did not return a telephone call seeking comment. An R.N.C. spokesman said the party never dictated the use of money given to Norquist's group; Dole, meanwhile, has volunteered to answer questions from Thompson's committee this week...
...other words, these guys do the things that you do, or could do. Every time the characters eat, buy something or look around, there's another reference to Banana Republic or Orange Julius, Return of the Jedi or Bonfire of the Vanities; to something that you have eaten, bought, seen or done. Even the title is a reference: Geniuses of Crack is the title of a song by Tsunami which describes people who are experts in irrelevant and obscure topics...
...turns out the Agency is spending about $6 billion a year less than it did at the height of the Reagan era, but $12 billion more than during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. Sen. Bob Kerrey, second banana on the Intelligence Committee, says that whatever happens, at least the CIA will be held accountable for its post-Cold War spending. Now that's using your intelligence...
...grown two orders of women and men willing to take risks and make sacrifices... Between her travels to the order's far-flung outposts, Mother Teresa rises at 4:30 a.m., prays, sings the Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus...