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...Certain departments said 'it's not our problem.' There were several departments that said 'is not some creep up in grades appropriate since students' credentials are improving,'" Buell says...
...important part of the cash-suction operation is the multitude of Contract with America "coalitions,'' which are groups of lobbyists who raise funds to press members of the House for passage of elements of the Contract. "You have coalition creep,'' says Mark Isakowitz, a leader of the Coalition for America's Future, which pushes tax cuts. "You could spend most of your time going from one coalition meeting to another." These are coordinated for Gingrich by Representative John Boehner. His Thursday Group, a round table of representatives from the various coalitions, meets every week at 11 a.m. in a room...
...which a husband meditates on his wife's odd and affected accent: "After a time he had stopped noticing it at all more than a couple of times a day, and for years had given up speculating what speech-sounds she might make if, for example, he were to creep up behind her and fire a loaded revolver past...
...later heard about the incendiary dromedary that, vaporized by remote control while tethered at a Soviet officers' canteen, killed or maimed more than a dozen people. There is an unpredictability quotient built into the business of "human intelligence," Bearden muses. "Today's freedom fighter," he says, "is tomorrow's creep...
Bearden made this observation last week as his former employers tried gamely to explain the CIA's relationship with someone who may be a creep of significant proportions: a Guatemalan army colonel named Julio Roberto Alpirez. Earlier this year, New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli stunned the Clinton Administration by charging that the CIA had failed to share information with Congress and the State Department suggesting that Alpirez, once an agency informant, had been involved in two ugly, politically explosive murders in 1990 and 1992, and in fact the CIA had paid him $44,000 even after linking...