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...that airport security workers should be federal employees. Congress continues to bicker over whether such workers should be government workers or instead be employed as private contractors subject to strict federal supervision. The Senate unanimously called for federalizing the security workers. But the House is balking, with majority leader Dick Armey injecting a nakedly political objection: that federal workers probably would become union members and vote for Democrats...
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...Dick Cheney taking time out of his pillow talk to decide which academics should be on the list is deeply disconcerting to me,” McCarthy said...
What went unacknowledged was that everyone occupies a position in the great stream of events and ideas, even in a time of rampant vapidity, and to forget that was to lose one's bearings, along with one's soul. Moby Dick begins with Ishmael seeing his voyage as an interlude squeezed between more significant events, which he presents as newspaper headlines (you'll smile at his choices...
...cold opening, promising Osama bin Ladin, “I’m gonna make you my own personal Where’s Waldo. And unlike those frustrating Waldo books, I’m gonna find you.” The next show’s opener, with Dick Cheney in an Afghan cave, wasn’t as good, but it was still funny. And Drew Barrymore, in the monologue, spoke about the anthrax that had just been found in SNL’s building (her husband, Tom Green, was in the audience in a gas mask...