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Others went on about getting your legs waxed while reading to your son (editor Tina Brown), James Carville dropping his soiled underwear in the dining room (his wife, TV talk host Mary Matalin) and the general conflicts besetting mother-magnates--until Eleanor Holmes Norton scolded the group, blessed with hot- and cold-running nannies, for whining. When Hunter-Gault applauded the lack of wonkiness, citing a discussion of male testicles at one table, Andrea Mitchell's beeper went...
...controversial nuclear testing program. Although Chirac announced an end to the testing two days ago, many Democrats boycotted the Capitol Hill speech. They charged that after conducting six nuclear tests over the past six months, the announcement came far too late. "We return the insult with our insult," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, congressional delegate from the District of Columbia. House Republicans late Wednesday night blocked an effort to withdraw Chirac's invitation. But despite a last-minute effort to fill the seats with congressional staffers, the French President was left speaking to a half-empty gallery...
...stuck by him through more than one embarrassment. Early last week, after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the President wanted to punch Safire in the nose. At his press conference on Thursday, Clinton compared his wife with Eleanor Roosevelt, another activist First Lady who came under fire. "For many of the same reasons," he added, "from many of the same sources...
...Clinton is the most controversial First Lady in modern politics -- on a day when a Senate committee was grilling one of her former Little Rock legal colleagues about Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater work -- he went the reporter one better, saying his wife was the most controversial First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. It was a deft and flattering reference to a First Lady who was famous for her blunt candor and who was harshly criticized for her unusually high visibility during FDR's administration. As for the budget, Clinton said that if congressional Republicans would only put off resolving key policy...
...Woodbridge Society has done an amazing job thus far in setting up international study breaks and dinners, establishing a mentor program, and helping in the orientation events in the fall," says Assistant Dean of Freshmen Eleanor A. Sparagana, who is responsible for international first-years...