Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feud with Saddam Hussein, George Bush is trying to be Gary Cooper in the climactic scene from High Noon. As the lanky sheriff faces down the archvillain, frightened townspeople peek out of the windows to see who will be left standing in the dusty street. "This planet's not big enough for the two of us," says the leader of the free world...
...G.O.P., which has controlled the Granite State's politics since the beginning of time, intraparty warfare is a favorite spectator sport and the Gregg-Sununu feud is its Super Bowl. Gregg, 74, was Governor in the mid-1950s, and has been New Hampshire's leading moderate Republican ever since. Sununu's election as Governor in 1982 was a triumph for the party's conservative wing. Gregg's son Judd, 44, is the current Governor. Judd succeeded Sununu and is more conservative than his father, but the old rivalry endures. Thus the simple matter of how to respond to Sununu...
...THOUSAND ACRES by Jane Smiley (Knopf; $23). Based on a family feud over inherited farmland in Iowa, this modern-day King Lear has an exhilarating sense of place and a sheer Americanness that give it its own soul and roots...
Bath's penchant for secrecy has been frustrated by a feud with a former business partner, Bill White, who claims that Bath was a front man for CIA business operations. White contends that Bath has used his connections to the Bush family and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to cloak the development of a lucrative array of offshore companies designed to move money and airplanes between the Middle East and Texas. White, an Annapolis graduate and former Navy fighter pilot, claims it was Bentsen's son Lan who suggested that White go into the real estate development business with Bath...
...Well, say a long-running feud with...