Word: eye
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Thompson, who has an eye on the White House himself, is discouraged but not defeated. "We've been stonewalled," griped committee spokesman Paul Clark, but he added, "There's still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...STEIN is no Einstein, but the Nixon speechwriter, Pepperdine University law professor and eye-ointment pitchman is willing to bet his salary he knows more than most folks. Stein will star in a new TV show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, where contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council...
Clinton: I acknowledge that on May 8, 1991, in my role as Governor, I may have attended my own conference on quality management at the Excelsior Hotel. While I have no recollection whatsoever of making eye contact with Ms. Jones across the lobby, I do not contest her claim that I did so, since I am often called upon to make direct eye contact in the course of my official duties. I also do not dispute Ms. Jones' contemporaneous assertion to Trooper Ferguson that I had "sexy hair...
Jones: I am deeply grateful for the President's admission that he came into my world and changed it forever on May 8, 1991. As for the eye contact, it was my impression at the time that the Governor was evaluating me as a promising young state employee and not as a potential oral-sex partner, and I stand by that initial impression...
...defense needs only one vote to save McVeigh from the death penalty. If they got it Wednesday, the most important tear of the trial will have been shed by the defendant himself. As his mother spoke, the normally stony McVeigh was seen to wipe a tear from beneath his eye. Jannie Coverdale, who lost her two grandsons in the blast, said that the tear had changed things for her. "For over a year, I have looked for some sign of emotion and it came today," she told CNN afterwards. "At least now I know he's human...