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Does the body politic of the United States still lounge in the days of Boss Tweed? How strange that the Republicans in New Jersey have not leveled parallel charges of pay-off practices at the defeated Democrats! Stranger still, that so many other elections went off without a hitch in a time when media bombshells bring in the big bucks. We need not even debate the political correctness of Safire's last few phrases; they testify to his poor understanding of the problem...
...Carey, was one of the country's most powerful Teamsters before he quit in dis grace. He was also a chairman of the Irish American Teamsters, whose letterhead listed Carey as a "committee member." In 1986 the group celebrated its silver anniversary with a dinner dance honoring union boss Jackie Presser as its "man of the year." Presser subsequently died before he could be tried on embezzlement charges. Carey, through a spokesman, remarkably insists he has "never been on any committee of Irish Teamsters...
...considerable challenges. Which ruthless leaders are actually sorry about mistaking Christopher's courtly bearing for lack of resolve? Not Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose forces are bombarding Sarajevo; not Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras, whose thugs are thumbing their nose at the U.S.; not General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, the clan boss ravaging Mogadishu...
When the Clinton team members arrived in Washington they vowed they would avoid the interdepartmental warfare that marred the Carter Administration, in which most of them served. They have succeeded up to now, but the good manners are beginning to fray slightly. State Department officials believe their boss is slammed for things that should be blamed on the Pentagon or the National Security Council NSC. Christopher tells his aides not to finger-point, but last week one of them confided, "He has taken criticism for a number of things he didn't take the lead on. You know, he doesn...
...Court ruled unanimously that women need not show they have been psychologically damaged to prove sexual harassment in the workplace, merely that they are working in a "hostile or abusive" environment. The decision stems from a complaint by Teresa Harris, a manager at a Tennessee manufacturer, who said her boss insulted her and made sexual advances...