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...invitation had sported a black dragon, emblematic of "big, fat and unaccountable" government. Its recipients were invited to help slay the beast at the Doral over New Year's weekend at a cost of $550, plus greens and hotel fees. Party organizers Laura Ingraham and Jay Lefkowitz, both thirtyish Washington lawyers, promised "voodoo economics golf" played with glow-in-the-dark balls and "box aerobics" featuring punching bags done up to resemble well-known liberals. Hard liquor and cigars would be provided. And Ingraham told a reporter that the Saturday night Canterbury Tales Dinner Banquet would feature "wenches running around...
...case succinctly in a letter to the Court which said in part: "First. The time of the year is unseasonable, being now very near the shortest day, and the depth of winter.... Third. The place from which I go, hath fire, fuel, and all provisions for man and beast, laid in for the winter." Mr. Dunster obviously knew whereof he spoke (and shivered), and the Court luckily granted him a reprieve for the winter from the cold New England wilderness...
...Thomas H. Garver (Abrams; $49.50). If you were in the driver's seat, it was the embodiment of Manifest Destiny. If you were in its way, as were the tribes of the Great Plains, it was the iron horse, snorting emissary of the unstoppable paleface invasion. Today the sooty beast is the stuff of nostalgia. This is a book of homage to those vanished symbols of expansion and industrial might. The evocative old images recall a time when belching smoke and slashing rail lines were signs of progress, not pollution...
...think tanker for the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, makes much of his Democratic credentials: if he refers to his years as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson once, he does so a dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures the "values" debate...
Although all of the 41 College teams recruit to some degree, football's recruiting program is a different beast--35 football recruits matriculate every year, more than for any other team. Then too, the pool of talented high school football players is enormous...