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Even people who had nervously stood by Condit's side for weeks were beginning to bail. After watching Condit's network-TV performance at a supporter's house in suburban St. Louis, Mo., House minority leader Dick Gephardt shook his head and said over and over to aides, "I can't believe he's not being more candid. I can't believe he's not taking responsibility." In a press conference the next day, he called Condit's evasions "disturbing and wrong...
Before Rumsfeld surrendered last week, he enjoyed stalwart support from the White House. Dick Cheney, once a Rumsfeld protege, came to his rescue. Rumsfeld is "going to have to break some china, but he's just the guy to do it," Cheney told the Washington Post two weeks ago. But that support may be softening. "There's some concern about him going native," says a senior Administration official who fears Rumsfeld is "falling into the old habit" of letting the uniforms dictate to the civilians...
Comix Grandmaster Will Eisner continues on a publishing schedule that shames people less than half his age. He has two new books coming out, beginning with "Moby-Dick," (NBM Publishing) in September. Though I wonder about wisdom of turning America's Greatest Novel into a very slim hardcover directed at children, who am I to argue with a man who's been doing comix since the 1930s? His other book, an original graphic novel (a term he invented), "The Name of the Game," comes out in November from DC comics. It sounds like another of his patented tales of urban...
...What obdurate force the creature possessed. He actually seemed to be dragging the boat. Moby-Dick! I hauled and reeled, under the sardonic eye of the cormorants - hauled and reeled...and mentally I had this 55-inch (at least) phenomenon iced down and on the way to the taxidermist down the road... when, after a moment or two of struggle, it began to dawn on me that my titan underwater was oddly immobile, conducting his side of the war from a fixed location. This disconcerted me. I was moving. The boat was moving. The brute, however, remained (as I could...
...give away their hard-earned tax receipts: Find "spending priorities" that Americans would have preferred to $78 billion in tax cuts for 2002, and convince them to take their remorse out on the Republicans. (The Dems don?t have anything specific yet besides the Social Security surplus scare, but Dick Gephardt will be waving a list before long...