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...first heart attack digestive upset. Kennedy played touch football with over-compensating vigor rather than give a hint of his Addison's disease. Bush got no sympathy for throwing up in Japan and no understanding when an aide blamed thyroid medicine for his cluelessness during the '92 campaign. Dole's remarking that "Some of the things that we read about don't return as quickly as advertised" after prostate surgery just reminded...
...introduction of McCain, Sheila P. Burke, executive director of the Kennedy School and former chief of staff for retired Republican Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, praised McCain for his tenacity...
...warm to their work, so that the final two acts carry all or most of the zing Shaw wrote into them. This is owing more to McConnell, who makes a convincing transition from querulous selfconsciousness to defiant independence. Bouffier's a little too wooden-faced (a kind of Bob Dole for the stage), and doesn't quite tap into the semi-tragic nature of his character's self-imprisonment, though the contrast still comes through starkly enough when juxtaposed with Eliza's growing self-awareness. Ron Ritchell, as a rather subdued, Dr. Watsonish Colonel Pickering, unfortunately comes...
...sort of became the prostrate pinup boy of Washington, D.C. I didn't talk about politics; I talked about prostrates." --Prostrate cancer patient and former United States Senator Bob Dole (R,-KS) discussing his effort to alert men to the dangers of his disease on "Larry King Live...
...sponsored talks in Oslo on a worldwide ban of land mines. Clinton had been reluctant to go against the advice of the Pentagon, which says it still needs mines for defense reasons, but a highly visible campaign that included such figures as Princess Diana, General Norman Schwarzkopf and Elizabeth Dole persuaded the President to change his mind. A treaty is scheduled to be signed in Ottawa at the end of the year. Its effectiveness, however, is far from assured: two of the world's largest mine producers, China and Russia, will not take part in the talks...