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...they endured a hot motorcade trip across town. Afterward many people tried to persuade Jackie to change her clothes, but she insisted on wearing the stained pink suit. "I want them to see what they have done," she said. She also refused to take tranquilizers, fearing they would blunt her reactions and interfere with her planning -- because plan the funeral she did. The riderless horse, the eternal flame, the wailing Irish bagpipe -- all were her idea. When the hearse rumbled past, she asked little John to salute his father. The nation saw her then as a mother, first and foremost...
...exacerbated the 15-month dispute by beginning to remove plutonium-rich fuel rods from a nuclear reactor without monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency -- which could enable the North to acquire more plutonium for its suspected nuclear arms program. The move prompted the IAEA to issue an unusually blunt statement accusing Pyongyang of a "serious violation" of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. And that effectively catapulted the entire mess back to Bill Clinton...
...Rostenkowski employs the hard grammar of power with such sovereignty that it was difficult to imagine last week that his words might be hollow. Seated at the ornate, curved rostrum of the House Ways and Means Committee's hearing chamber, the chairman of 13 years was blunt about his plans for passing a health bill. "If we can be bipartisan and achieve universal coverage," he growled, "great." Pause. "If we can't, I will do whatever I need to do to to get at least 20 votes" -- a majority...
...dialogue between the women is blunt, bordering on rowdy, and often humorous; occasionally, the jokes will offer insight into the proverbial battle between sexes or safe love in the age of AIDS. Ogden chooses her participants carefully, representing a wide range of backgrounds and lifestyles. Many of the conversations focus on alternatives to the conventional models of sexuality, including lesbian life and "mental masturbation...
...distracting. For the rest of the country, it will take a while to absorb the details of Paula Jones' charge that Bill Clinton, when he was still Governor of Arkansas, spotted her at a Little Rock hotel, summoned her to his room, promptly dropped his pants and made a blunt sexual proposition. When she finally filed a $700,000 lawsuit against the President last week, she added a detail that launched the case decisively into the tabloid universe of Michael Jackson and the Bobbitts. To prove her allegation, she says, she can identify "distinguishing characteristics in Clinton's genital area...