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...switching off. As he strained to see the time on his electric clock, Packwood realized there was a power outage. Worried that he might not have adequate light to groom himself for the morning talk shows just hours away, the Senator searched in vain for a flashlight. In a closet he found a Coleman lantern, only to discover that the glass was broken. Further gropings turned up a second Coleman, but Packwood fumbled in the dark, spilling kerosene. Finally, an hour after beginning his quest for light, Packwood produced a flicker--at which point, all his exertions were for naught...
...hottest summer days. His staff finally had enough of the monstrosity. An aide confronted him: "Senator, the bad news is there was a fire at your house." Before the horrified Roth could say a word, the aide continued, "The good news is it was confined to your closet." The brown suit disappeared. But he still sticks to an offbeat wardrobe that seems a fitting accompaniment to his store-bought hairpieces...
...Dole's lead over Clinton has vanished, there is a growing fear in G.O.P. circles that the party is about to nominate a man who does not excite the party's rank and file; a Washington insider in an age when the term has become an insult; a closet centrist with a hard head and a bleeding heart; and, most worrisome, a candidate who might squander the party's chance to exploit Clinton's weakness and gain a new Republican dynasty...
...firing of a first-line supervisor (who was reinstated this year by a federal appeals court in Chicago). The experience, however, took a grave toll on the pair's careers and personal lives. For two months, Klipfel says, the couple had their children sleep in a second-floor closet as a precaution against retaliatory shootings...
...threatened her and her family, according to a formal statement she filed with ATF. "The cops were so mad," Klipfel says. "I just couldn't be sure. I felt that my children just were not safe." She got home at 1 a.m. and immediately moved her children into the closet...