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Gore, on the other hand, has a pristine record by Washington's standards. When Republican dirt-mongers tried to unearth their usual graveyard crop of skeletons in closets, all they found were a few wooden looks and some smashed government ashtrays...
...technical name for my cure is flooding, a technique usually reserved for treating phobias. In the early '70s, London researchers reported a novel treatment for the obsessive-compulsive washing that comes from a pathological fear of dirt: they confined a washer to a hospital room and arranged for the room to be increasingly soiled. As the grime got thicker, the patient's anxiety level would rise and rise-the doctors had turned off the water taps-until the agony was no longer bearable. At which point, no, the doctors did not take the patient out of the room-they were...
...recent Southern Picnic drew quite a fervent student response, too. "It's kind of insulting that they say we eat dirt down south," Texan Julia A. Kidd '98 remarks about the Union's so-called dirt cakes. Maybe HDS was thinking of Mud Pie, a dish that many are familiar with, but the dirt cakes were served with sand pudding instead. Kidd continues, "And what's with this catfish and slaw business? Nobody eats that. Plus, I've never seen a Soho soda before I came here." Kidd's confusion is understandable, as Soho sodas come from New York City...
...African safari: We went for three days. It was during rainy season. We spent a lot of time pushing the truck out of the mud. We hired our own driver. We were dirt poor there, and it was a really nice place; we got this resident rate. All the other people were these rich Europeans who flew in just for this safari. The staff really loved us because we hung out with them, instead of these other people...
...Harry Johnston (D-Fla.) filed a complaint with the House ethics committee, claiming that Jones has a vested interest in proposed congressional reforms. Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley tried to turn the tables by claiming Johnston is in a group of lawmakers who meet regularly to dig up dirt on the speaker. Gingrich previously was accused of improperly using tax-deductible donations to fund his politically-oriented college course, which airs free of charge on Jones' cable system. The fresh complaint contends that Jones has "substantial interests" in telecommunications reform, cable deregulation, and the large Public Broadcasting System funding cuts being...