Word: broking
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...state treasure, and I have lost a mentor and friend. As mayor of Los Angeles, TOM BRADLEY was a healer of social divisions and a visionary who shepherded the transformation of an unruly town into a great city. The grandson of slaves, the son of Texas sharecroppers, he broke through racial barriers because there was simply no surrender in him. He bore the abuse that was the price of his success with a majestic dignity that even his most vicious detractors could never crack. Although he never courted the press, and was often criticized by it for his stoic public...
...Saddam Hussein. On the eve of his Washington visit, Abdullah took a step that delighted U.S. officials: he cut Saudi relations with the fundamentalist Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, who have given haven to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The reason, Abdullah explained, was that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar broke three promises he had made to Riyadh to expel or extradite the exiled Saudi fundamentalist accused by the U.S. of masterminding global terror...
Later that night, one member of FM visited the Fly Club, where blood alcohol apparently turned to testosterone--transubstantiation run amok as a fight broke out and some Fly guys wrinkled their khakis. One female party-goer, disgusted with the machismo demonstration, remarked, "No matter how much renovation they do, this place will always be a dump...
DIED. MURIEL HUMPHREY BROWN, 86, consummate political wife and, briefly, a U.S. Senator; in Minneapolis, Minn. When Hubert H. Humphrey launched his political career in 1945, Brown campaigned next to him. She broke the spouse-as-campaign-prop mold during Humphrey's three bids for President and his term as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking out on such issues as the rights of the mentally disabled...
...opinions should carry the day whether they turn out or not. During the 20 months from the beginning of 1973 until Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974, 128 polls asked Americans whether they thought the President should leave office. But in the mere nine months since the Lewinsky scandal broke, according to Don Ferree of the Roper Center, pollsters have asked that question more than 325 times. A Gallup poll this month finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans want their Representatives to stick close to American public opinion when deciding on impeachment rather than do what they think...