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Take, for instance, the long knives that flashed last week. Eager to be the first legislators to craft a concrete proposal, the Democratic members of the House Subcommittee on Health have been slaving late nights for two months. But before the panel's four Republicans would let their objections go down to defeat, they staged a bit of theater last Wednesday that was pointedly designed to embarrass President Clinton. Calling for a formal vote on the White House plan, the Republicans each voted nay. The seven Democrats, as unwilling to join the mutiny as they were uneager to embrace Clinton...
...information. "He was staying at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen during a state visit," the count recalls. "Our people rented the suite under his and dismantled all the plumbing. They intercepted his toilet flushings and sent the samples to Paris for analysis." This unpleasant bit of trade craft revealed that Brezhnev, a vodka lover, had suffered severe liver damage. "The old boy didn't last long after that," says the count, raising a magnanimous glass of mineral water to the memory of a former nemesis...
...this humbling and sacred idea: that acting deserves as much craft, sweat and devotion as, say, cabinetmaking. "Acting is a vocation," he insists...
...videotaped 1994 confession that TIME was able to view in Istanbul, Mehmet Ali Bilici, a militant Turkish fundamentalist, described his terrorist training at an Iranian camp near Qum. He said he and other trainees received basic military instruction, followed by courses in intelligence-trade craft, coded communications, explosives and covert operations, and acknowledged that he received "direct orders" from the Iranians to conduct "military operations on Turkish soil." Bilici has admitted to kidnapping two Iranian opposition figures who were turned over to VEVAK agents and later killed...
...everyone I know: "It's been a long time since you saw your body/ It looks like someone, yeah, it looks like somebody/ It's not beautiful, it's not ugly/ It's just your body and it looks like somebody else..." It takes an awful lot of songwriting craft to fit that awful, simple truth into a rock and roll song, to balance the fragility it evokes with the anger it ought to evoke. That Helium makes it work is, quietly, a revolutionary accomplishment...