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Taking a column from the Ross Perot spreadsheet of political life, each week Minnick invites the press to a "Sunday Pork Chop," where he explains how to balance the federal budget. A Nixon Administration budget aide, Minnick wants to eliminate "corporate welfare," get our allies to foot part of the defense bill and trim spending without raising taxes or gutting entitlements...
...mills at market prices for a two-year transition period--a fine deal for a Republican Party that celebrates the free market. Will logging end? Probably not, but the expectation is that tourists who merely want to look at trees will create jobs for those who used to chop them down...
...role of the Irish revolutionary and guerrilla tactician. "Liam has got this terribly honest heart beneath everything," Jordan notes. "One of my worries was that the audience would perhaps lose sympathy for Collins because what he does is so ferocious, but halfway through I realized Liam could chop up his grandmother and he'd still be a sympathetic...
DIED. BILL MONROE, 84, singer, mandolin virtuoso and father of bluegrass music; in Springfield, Tennessee. Distinguished by the mutton-chop sideburns and chiseled demeanor that gave him the aura of a patriarch from another century, Monroe was one of those rare artists who sired a musical genre. In 1938 he formed his first band, calling it the Blue Grass Boys after his home state, Kentucky. The group soon took on the bluegrass configuration of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bass and banjo, paired with the near-falsetto harmonies that Monroe called his "high, lonesome sound." Bluegrass lives on across the country, including...
...then again, the dining halls aren't worth fighting too much. Two nights ago, the main course was some Chinese pork chop concoction. It looked like shake-'n-bake pork covered with sand. I'm not even Jewish, but I know that I'd go through any religion's hell for eating that sludge...