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...were plotting to wiretap his office telephone last August -- even though he had pulled out of the presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush campaign. The cowboy claimed to be hawking a wiretap tape of some of Perot's phone conversations and other documents...
...defeating him. That new world will present future Presidents with more dilemmas like prewar Iraq -- Syria and China are current examples -- where the moral costs of engaging with a thuggish regime must be weighed against the practical chances of coaxing it into the concert of nations -- and making a buck in the meantime. Bush's Iraq policy is not a perfect model for future action, but neither is it a perfect example of what to avoid...
...Cheap bastards never tip more than a buck," Beckel said...
...abhorrent, the FBI was not an intruder, but a welcome guest on campus in the eyes of top administrators. At both Harvard and Yale, high-level liaisons were charged with the specific task of coordinating relations with the FBI. Diamond says it was likely that then-Provost Paul H. Buck was the liaison at Harvard...
Stipe also has fun in the straight-forward "man on the Moon," a song about Andy Kaufman traipsing around in heaven. Twangs of R.E.M.'s country roots combine with Mike Mills' cool harmonies, Stipe's Elvis impersonation and a funky guitar solo from Peter Buck to produce a catchy little tune...