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...point the political antagonism tilted into the personal. Kemp was partly responsible for the single most painful political betrayal in Dole's life. In 1985, after the supply-side tax cuts championed by Kemp were followed by an exploding federal deficit, Dole pushed through the Senate a politically daring curb on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) for Social Security recipients. To squeeze out a one-vote majority in the Senate, Dole had to arrange for Republican Pete Wilson, then a Senator from California, to be wheeled in from emergency surgery. But when the bill got to the House, Kemp...
...resolution, introduced by City Councillor Timothy J. Toomey, calls for stricter enforcement by police of a 1992 law that fines second-offenders $25 for stealing material left on the curb for recycling...
Cambridge liquor vendors are seeking support from Harvard and other nearby schools in their campaign to curb underage drinking in the city...
...terrorist, in any case, dreams of such results. Any one of those suitcases on the conveyor belt is the seedpod of our death. The furniture really does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...
...hostility she felt she encountered from other women when she wore suede pants at a feminist rally. She's equally put out by women who categorize Hillary Clinton or Barbra Streisand as "ball-breaking." Whether Friday's prescription for women to embrace their own sexuality--and men--would curb this kind of feminine competition is debatable. Furthermore, Friday hurls gossipy anecdotes as arbitrary and vindictive as any told about her suede pants...