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While not the life of a party, Hillary tends to get into the spirit of an evening. She's the one to "try the new meal -- hippopotamus stew -- or order the blue drink," says television producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Most socializing is done at home, in the kitchen and breakfast room and around the piano. (All three Clintons play the instrument, says Hillary, "but none of us is what you'd call good.") They play Pictionary, Scrabble and a cutthroat card game called Hungarian Rummy...
...possible was the U.S. dollar's plunge to its lowest level since World War II. But that same decline meant that while the Europeans frolicked, Americans abroad turned into window shoppers because the cost of everything had become so expensive. "A room in a decent hotel costs $450, and breakfast $35," fumed Robert McFadden, an Atlanta lawyer in London. "It would have been bad enough without the dollar's fall. Now it's just outrageous." Said Stephanie Bressler, a recent college graduate from Rhode Island who was touring Paris with friends: "Like we saw the Louvre, the outside...
That low moaning sound in the background just might be the Founding Fathers protesting from beyond the grave. They have been doing it ever since the Republicans announced a "religious war" in the name of "traditional values." It grew several decibels louder last week when George Bush, at a breakfast of religious leaders, scorched the Democrats for failing to mention God in their platform and declaimed that a President needs to believe in the Almighty. What about the constitutional ban on "religious test((s))" for public office? the Founding Fathers would want to know. What about Tom + Jefferson's conviction...
Even as Republican speechmakers were taking aim at Clinton from the podium last week, aides were crisscrossing the sprawl of Houston to underscore their points over breakfast, lunch, coffee and cocktails with reporters. Meanwhile, Democratic fax machines were churning out rebuttals -- including a two-page reply to Bush's acceptance speech before he had even finished delivering it. As the volley of stats and cost estimates flying between both camps increases, the campaign is likely to be fought in four major policy arenas as well as on the "family values" front. The key lines of attack...
...George Bush has been U.N. Ambassador, CIAdirector, envoy to China. As Vice President,George Bush presided over the liberation ofEastern Europe and the termination of the WarsawPact...Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience ispretty much confined to having had breakfast onceat the International House of Pancakes...