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BILL CLINTON Court allows line-item veto. Now we'll see if Trent Lott gets ship-building dough for his district...
...their salary demands from $1 million per episode (what Jerry earns) and settled for $600,000 for next season's 22 episodes (up from $160,000 a show). Apart from the unquantifiable attributes--timing, delivery, physical funniness--what exactly do you have to do to earn that kind of dough? Herewith, stats of last week's discount-priced program...
...barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original pastry as a "religious piece of dough" inadvertently discovered by a store employee, the selection of Nun Bun T-shirts, coffee mugs, bookmarks and video tapes for sale suggests that a more worldly process is at work. Mother Teresa's attorney Jim Towey intends to do something about...
Much of the sophomoric behavior that has infiltrated the council is aggravated by an air of self-importance. For example, several weeks ago the council voted to allot $300 out of its $16,250 SpringFest budget to purchase fried dough--but not until after a vigorous debate. Which carnival food appears at SpringFest is an important decision, but do the relative merits of sno-cones and popcorn necessitate full council debate and the fanfare of self-congratulation that follows...
...council has to reform itself. To begin with, it must cut its size so that chaos and frivolity do not dominate its full council meetings. Also, it must not pass resolutions on everything it can--from human rights in Nigeria to fried dough. Rather, it must carefully think about the limits of its spheres of influence. As Dean Lewis wrote, "[The council] works least well when it legislates without consultation or deep thought...