Word: clauses
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...companies to fund generous patronage and state programs, much of it to the benefit of his coalition of poorer whites, French-speaking Cajuns and blacks. When oil prices took a dive in the mid-'80s, the good times stopped rolling. Edwards "was a sort of perpetual Santa Claus," says Ed Renwick, a professor of political science at Loyola University of New Orleans, "but now he's got to continually fight to balance the budget." That's dull work for a 66-year-old man who just took on a 29-year-old bride. "I will leave you as a politician...
DIED. WALTER LANTZ, 93, animator; in Burbank, California. "Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha! Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!" The maniacal chortle of Lantz's Woody Woodpecker is probably the most universally recognized laugh since Santa Claus first ho-ho-hoed -- an enduring, if somewhat annoying, piece of Americana. Lantz, known more for his craftsmanship than his originality, ran his own animation studio by the late 1920s, where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen...
Alan Dershowitz Claus von Bulow "The chances are very...
...greater or a lesser crime -- if a crime can even be measured in such a way. As far as I am concerned, it is totally irrelevant to me after meeting a child whose leg was amputated. He had gone to bed before Christmas with the hope that Santa Claus would bring his leg back...
...Dersh." And Dersh thought as he walked, "Boy, this guy in front of me is all farshlayet (Author's note: far-SHLAY-eht, Yiddish for "all dressed up, like Robert Nozick")...But I don't feel challenged. These kids all saw Reversal of Fortune.. I mean, I got Claus von Bulow off, and they all know it! What's more, I'll give them the Talmudic or Yiddish story shpiel...They'll just eat that whole cute, ethnic identity thing...