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Gore, on the other hand, has a pristine record by Washington's standards. When Republican dirt-mongers tried to unearth their usual graveyard crop of skeletons in closets, all they found were a few wooden looks and some smashed government ashtrays...
...COMMUNIST BLOC in 1989 and the loss of Soviet subsidies in 1992, Cuba has suffered through a period of plummeting prosperity that is euphemistically known as the ``special period.'' Imports have dried up. Industry has folded in on itself. Cuba's No. 1 money earner, the sugar crop, amounted to less than 4 million tons this year--a level not seen for decades. The island's factories are producing at only 30% capacity, giving rise to shortages in everything from clothes and cosmetics to pots and pans...
...enough to make up the difference. Mostly they aren't successful, so they are sidetracked to junior colleges, not hopelessly off the N.B.A. track, but slowly lose confidence and direction. Like the Lincoln High legends before them, they will someday be back home on the sidelines watching a new crop of kids who can make a basketball do card tricks...
...There is fear that a very good crop of juniorswould look and see what happened to seniors in thelast year and not apply," he added
While the new crop of G.O.P. House members is still devoted to Gingrich, it can nonetheless be counted on to cause him discomfort in the months ahead. For their second hundred days in office, the freshmen are working on campaign- finance reform bills, an issue that can make more senior members of both parties squirm. ``That's going to cause some fuss among some of the people who are here, because they like things the way they are,'' says Representative Sue Myrick of North Carolina...