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...state secret that the debates between BILL CLINTON and BOB DOLE on 60 Minutes are pretty dull. But don't blame Dole: he tried to punch them up with a script that was a little edgier. Clinton nixed it, but here's a brief excerpt: "Mr. President," Dole began, "tonight I'd like to talk about the danger of unemployment...for me and you! CBS is considering pulling the plug. And I'll tell ya, no matter how big the Bush tax cut, I need the work. With your legal bills, I know you can use the cash...
...excerpt What had Mma Ramotswe to be embarrassed about? She thought hard. Her weight was hardly a confidential matter, and anyway, she was proud of being a traditionally built African lady, unlike these terrible, sticklike creatures one saw in the advertisements. Then there were her corns - well, those were more or less on public display when she wore her sandals. Really, there was nothing that she felt she had to hide. Now constipation was quite a different matter. It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that nature. She felt terribly sorry for people...
...revolutionary martyrs" if they die fighting the virus. Across Beijing, public venues from cinemas, karaoke parlors to swimming pools and basketball courts were closed. That left people little choice but to stay home and watch cheesy variety shows aimed at buoying populist sentiment in these panicked times. A catchy excerpt from one poem on Beijing TV: "We have the closest feelings for the central leadership. We are Beijingers. The city government shares our popular feeling...
...Movement was at the roots of the Ancient Theater and will ever remain the very Essence of the Art,” Craig wrote in a Mask excerpt quoted in the exhibit. “We must translate movement through the medium of inanimate forms and thereby produce once more an impersonal...
...Trials of Finch,” an excerpt published in the December 23, 2002 issue of The New Yorker from her second novel, The Autograph Man, she slips in a description of a man’s confrontation with the prospect of a brain trumor...