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...point last week. For the first time since 1978, a mayor of New York City was proposing a budget smaller than the previous year's. The actual difference -- about $102 million sliced out of $31.6 billion, or just 0.3% less than the current budget -- still caused critics to carp and unions to bawl. But Giuliani remained adamant. "Disagree with us about how we distribute the pie," said the Republican, "but agree with us that it has to be a smaller pie." It was Giuliani's most substantial signal that New York City -- the biggest spender of them all -- was joining...
...conservative naysayers can complain that their ivory-tower minimalist state principles are being violated. The left wingers can carp about "don't ask, don't tell," NAFTA, and too many spending cuts. But if these critics can be allowed to cloud the substantive achievements of his first year, I can say, at the risk of sounding like a White House press office representative, that President Clinton is to be commended on a remarkable first year...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf home to the most vicious dialogue in the history of the American theatre. In 23 years of marriage, George and Martha have not only learned how to torment each other, they have learned to do it with style. These two don't just carp about character flaws or accuse one another of wrong-doing: each refutes the other's very right to existence. Early in the first act, Martha says to George, "I can't even see you...I haven't even been able to see you for years." Later, George dismisses Martha, willing...
...slaloming between liberals and moderates during the spring and summer, Clinton appeared to be just a middle-aged Democrat, rather than clearly old or new. Such artful ambivalence is often necessary in Washington, but Clinton's was on display all the time, and he gave both factions license to carp at him as inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun...
...Carp-control study at Metzger Marsh, Ohio...