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Meanwhile, across town at a private dinner studded with senior Republicans, the mood was much different. Clinton's latest humiliation had infused a sense of quiet pride in G.O.P. elders, who saw the Administration's breakdown as a vindication of Republican competence. More than that, Clinton's drafting of a former Republican operative, Gergen, to help bail out the White House image machinery was delicious irony. Joked one Republican lobbyist: "I'm telling a lot of my Democratic friends that if they need to get to Gergen, I'll be glad to help them...
...July, 1973, on the proposed legalization of gambling on college football: "The idea of legalizing gambling on amateur sports by Massachusetts could only result from a moral breakdown similar to Watergate...
Even more indicative of a breakdown in professional behavior, police and security sources say is the department's attempt to figure out how security unit personnel records were leaked to The Crimson...
...outsider to adapt to such a sequestered life. Michiko, the present Empress, who married Emperor Akihito in 1959, is, like Owada, a commoner. She broke ground by insisting on certain innovations, such as raising her children ) herself. She suffered for her determination, coming close to a nervous breakdown in the 1960s...
...mental incompetency were all for naught. Further appeals were dismissed on procedural grounds after the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985 began a series of rulings limiting the introduction of new evidence into cases already under appeal. Says O'Brien: "Bobby's death sentence is the product of a complete breakdown of the adversary system. The true defense in this case has never been inside a courtroom, and it never will be." In the eyes of the law, Bobby Shaw has been and always will be a normal, functioning citizen -- and fit for execution...