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...acting hastily, naively and cavalierly in brushing aside Baird's early warning that she had employed two undocumented Peruvians in her home. When the pieces of the shattered nomination are fitted together, Baird's civil infraction appears less careless than her handling by a transition team that seemed more bent on completing its headhunting mission than applying its standards...
Clinton's desire to give no offense led him to make many of the campaign promises that now lie bent and broken on the floor. Some of the latest reversals were unavoidable: Clinton's campaign mathematics were untenable long before the Bush Administration revised its projections of future deficits. Budget Director Richard Darman's estimate of deficits in excess of $300 billion through 1997 simply hastened the need for Clinton to curtail his plans and start spinning down expectations. In early January, aides began to back away from his improbable plans to provide tax relief to middle-class Americans, spend...
...horn. It was as much a trademark as Armstrong's handkerchief. Story goes that in 1953, Dizzy returned to a recording session and found that his trumpet had been sat upon, or fallen upon, or in some way molested. It was bent into a near-perfect 45 degrees angle. He played it anyway and liked what he heard; he used to say he could hear himself better. And that was pretty much the way he was heard, too, from then...
...their messages with encryption codes. Godwin's group is advocating that the government let private individuals use the most powerful encryption systems -- systems that even the FBI can't crack. Unfortunately, such complex codes are likely to undermine the principal virtue of electronic mail: convenience. In the end, people bent on private communication -- or government officials involved in criminal conspiracies -- had best pick up the phone, or better yet, stroll down the hall and have a good old-fashioned face-to-face conversation...
...fish, the tilapia, cruises irrigation canals devouring any growth that might impede the water flow, but it endangers the Colorado River's sport fish. Coast to coast, European starlings darken the skies. A century ago, the first few were released in New York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent on sharing with the New World every species mentioned by the bard. Today millions of starlings consume and defile our crops and terrorize native bluebirds. So too, we have inadvertently unleashed an invasion of plants, among them, kudzu, hydrilla and water hyacinth...