Word: contras
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...Marc Anthony Contra la Corriente (RMM) In this collection, rising Latin star Anthony sings salsa with youthful vigor and old-school showmanship. His voice is a flash of gold, blinding and enticing in its purity. The songs are in Spanish, but whether you habla espanol or not, Anthony's talent comes through, no translation needed...
...flattened out, a predictable second wave of hold-on-theres followed. The press had overreacted, said the press. The press had led and misled the public. There were so many more important stories to cover, said the press (as if that had not been the case during Iran-contra and the savings-and-loan frauds, when no princess had died). Behind all that was the embarrassing feeling that journalism had been swept up in a popular moment that it ought to have dissected or belittled, and so then it did, in an effort to cleanse itself of having dealt with...
...bring the U.S. into the League of Nations. More recently, Reagan joked about getting shot, and his popularity shot up. His favorability leaped again after he waved cheerily from his hospital room, fresh from having had polyps removed from his colon. That feel-good moment saw him through Iran-contra. We liked that he was out of the loop...
...year supply of Dining Services granola while waiting for a bad midterm grade to "blow over." The Campus Commando stresses that you tell no one where he is hiding, but greatly appreciated the company, as he has been amusing himself for the last three months by playing Contra inside his own head...
...there is any consolation for Gore, it is that all this is happening in 1997 rather than 1999. George Bush, after all, survived much worse with the Iran-contra hearings grabbing the nation's attention only months before the New Hampshire primary. A senior Gore aide says this period will ultimately be remembered merely as "bumpy air." But if an independent counsel enters the picture, dragging out an investigation, the taint of scandal could endure for Gore right up to the 2000 primaries. Says an adviser to one of Gore's rivals: "The thought has occurred...