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...full course load and touring all over the world aside, Jackiw also plays with the Brattle Street Chamber Players...
...give an economically illiterate speech to an American business audience in some part of the world where the local economy is said to be threatening ours. But even by the dismal standards set by Commerce Secretaries in the past, the extraordinary recent performance of Donald Evans before the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing set a new low. What's more, Evans' speech turned out to be a precursor to action: in mid-November the Administration imposed quotas on Chinese-made bathrobes, bras and knit fabrics. Washington said it was merely enforcing a safeguard provision that China had already agreed...
...much as any other Republican, is the one who helped take it away. He kept top Democrats like minority leader Tom Daschle from the conference that wrote the bill, not an unheard-of maneuver against a Senator of lesser rank but a brassy one to be pulling on the chamber's top Democrat. Instead Frist handpicked the Democratic Senators he would negotiate with: Louisiana's John Breaux, who worked with him on a Medicare-reform panel and who shares his views; and Montana's Max Baucus, who was just as eager to cut a deal...
...Senators watched in curious silence as Madame Chiang walked down the aisle of the Senate Chamber. They saw a still face with big dark eyes. They saw a slim, straight figure in a black Chinese gown, with here a tiny splash of jade, there a black sequin's understated sparkle. Madame Chiang stepped to the rostrum ... shot a smile at the Senators, and then, after apologizing for not having a set speech, knocked their silvery blocks off ... When she finished, tough guys were melted. 'Goddam it,' said one grizzled Congressman ... Much-moved listeners probably did not stop to analyze what...
...much as any other Republican, is the one who helped take it away. He kept top Democrats like minority leader Tom Daschle from the conference that wrote the bill, not an unheard-of maneuver against a Senator of lesser rank but a brassy one to be pulling on the chamber's top Democrat. Instead Frist handpicked the Democratic Senators he would negotiate with: Louisiana's John Breaux, who worked with him on a Medicare-reform panel and who shares his views; and Montana's Max Baucus, who was just as eager to cut a deal...