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Mary does shed new light on the aborted effort to dump Dan Quayle because of a secret poll showing that the Vice President was costing Bush 4 to 6 percentage points. (She later strains credulity when she gushes, "We knew the real day-to-day Quayle, and he was really smart.") Where Bob Woodward breathlessly announced in The Agenda that the President has a temper, James rightly treats these tantrums as common knowledge and not to be taken too seriously. "The truth of the matter," he says, "is that ((Clinton)) was all smoke and no fire...
...Cairo. Home to 14 million people, the Egyptian capital shows all too clearly the consequences of the inexorable human drive to have children. Cairo's open space per capita must be measured in square inches, and the poorest citizens build shelters on rooftops, in cemeteries and in the city dump. Cramped conditions are nothing new, of course, but even old-timers lament that population pressures are making Egyptians "bestial" to one another...
...percent majority in what is believed to be a fairly clean election. His dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) also was leading in a whopping 278 of 300 congressional races and in virtually all 64 Senate races. Why did Mexicans stick with the PRI, in their first chance to dump it in 65 years? Consider the uprising of the Zapatista rebels in January, the assassination of the PRI's first candidate in March, and two high-profile kidnappings. "It has been a very volatile year," says TIME Latin America Bureau Chief Laura Lopez. "People are looking for stability...
...business letter thanking the manager fro her hospitality, was crumpled and dirty and Sedaris had scrawled an apology in pencil below the text: "I wrote this months ago but just found it in my drawer yesterday. Waaaa!" The letter described New York City in the summer as a trash dump with boutiques and was signed "Love, David Sedaris." Even though the letter wasn't for me, I was charmed. I resolved to read his book...
...White House isn't impressed with hints from Haiti's military that it would dump its leader if the U.S. would back off from invasion. A tentative offer from senior Haitian military officers would have sacrificed their capo, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, if the U.S. dropped demands for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile...