Word: fiascoes
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...gone up this hill, and seven or eight times I've come down the hill as Speaker." That may be, but a leader firmly in control shouldn't be making so many trips. If the upcoming debate on the tax cut bill goes as poorly as the flood relief fiasco, the Speaker may find himself facing an overwhelming insurrection...
...Clintons have politicized the FBI seriously understates the case--from Janet Reno's pathetic refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate political-campaign contributions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' fiasco in Waco. The Justice Department, the ATF and the FBI have been totally compromised, and their leaders are doing the White House's bidding. Obstruction of justice, not pursuit of truth, now seems to be the FBI's specialty. When the lid finally blows off, the media will have to account to the American public for their soft-pedaling. DAN WISMAR Wadsworth, Ohio...
...demonstrated any true remorse for his statements or even expressed an understanding of why he should not have attempted to make a wisecrack about fried chicken. His "apology" could have easily been prompted by his publicist or PGA executives, who wanted merely to stem a public relations fiasco...
Only then will we avoid the scandal-a-day fiasco to which the 1996 Democratic fund-raising machine is currently subjecting us. As Michael Kinsley '73, who is a former Crimson executive, has repeatedly noted, the scandal has little to do with illegal behavior...
...high prices charged by such establishments can be avoided, but only at a cost. It might mean waltzing in the State House, which is nice but intimidating (and believe me, they keep all the interesting offices locked when they rent it out). Or worse, it could be a fiasco like this year's Citystep formal at the Children's Museum, which was overcrowded, overlit and understaffed. It's also just not as much fun climbing on the giant telephone if you're wearing spike heels, a strapless bra and a lot of sequins...