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...within camera range, Senator Bob Smith changed his seat from the third row to the second. The neatest desk belonged to Lott, fitting for a man who presses his shirts after they come back from the laundry. He's so efficient he called for a 15-min. break before poor Representative Ed Bryant had actually finished speaking. The press section, fearing that perhaps we were not witnessing the trial of the century, was relieved when Dominick Dunne, the reporter of record for the previous trial of the century, in Los Angeles, finally arrived...
...tide coming in and sweeping it all away," he admits. "History is stiff with writers who have been praised in terms exceeding anything my generation has received, and you think, 'Well, where are they now?' It's a chastening thought." But not one, fortunately, that keeps him from his desk for long...
...public, but Brownback understands this as well as anyone in Washington. He has been thinking about it for years, since the day he saw a bumper sticker in Topeka that said: I LOVE MY NATION, BUT I FEAR MY GOVERNMENT. As he sat at his back-row desk last week, Brownback listened carefully to the House prosecutors making their case and wondered about his duty to a President he wants to treat fairly, the laws he swore to uphold and the people of Kansas whose interests he promised to defend...
Susan Shefte, the administrative director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute (RPPI), is the fourth high-level Radcliffe official to depart from the college in the last six months-just days after Radcliffe Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin cleaned out her desk...
...even Quentin Tarantino produces this many corpses. Monday-morning quarterbacking gave way to Monday-morning desk clearing last week when five NFL head coaches were fired even before the regular season ended, setting one of the league's more inglorious records. The Seattle Seahawks' DENNIS ERICKSON, the Philadelphia Eagles' RAY RHODES, the Baltimore Ravens' TED MARCHIBRODA, the Chicago Bears' DAVE WANNSTEDT and the Carolina Panthers' DOM CAPERS were all unemployed by Monday night. With heads rolling like loose balls, an expansion team set to debut and more coaches on shaky ground, 11 positions may need filling for next season...