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...budget straitjacket annoys many lawmakers because they can no longer dash off the sort of heroic measures they once passed effortlessly. After Philippine President Corazon Aquino made a stirring speech to Congress appealing for more American aid, the Senate comically tried and failed twice to come up with a $200 million honorarium. After first hunting fruitlessly through foreign aid accounts and then trying to siphon funds from a Central American appropriation, last week the Senators dug the money out of the foreign-operations kitty...
...store laden with butterscotch candies, gum, Vermont maple candy and other goodies. At a later stop, she walked out of a donut store loaded down with a dozen chocolate and cinnamon donut holes, apple muffins and assorted regular donuts. On our last stop before the final dash to Cambridge, she stopped at a grocery store and bought more gum and some...
...agent carefully opened a door, pressing the switch that would otherwise turn on the interior lights. Another helped him spread a plastic sheath over the seats so that rain would not spot the upholstery. With a stopwatch at hand, they quickly removed the dashboard, installed the bug, replaced the dash and closed the car door. The operation took 15 minutes...
...case, this is hardly the nation's first drug crisis, nor will it be the last. Just as the U.S. periodically launches antidrug crusades, it regularly succumbs to new waves of forbidden indulgences. In the late 19th century, Americans swigged the true Classic Coke, Coca-Cola bottled with a dash of cocaine. A panicked nation banished cocaine to the shadows back then, but over the years new drugs -- from pot to heroin to LSD -- always seemed to come along, promising momentary escape and delivering long-term misery and waste...
...should try to escape if the opportunity came. Said David Jodice, of Vienna, Va.: "They were shouting at us in pitch darkness, and then we totally panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac and ran." Catherine Dumas, of Lafayette, N.J., who escaped the plane without a scratch but suffered a sprained ankle when a nervous ambulance driver ran over her foot, called the scramble "one of those Three Stooges comedy situations...