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...round table days were over. But when the fog of booze cleared, Richards discovered that her wit was not fueled by whiskey. The twinkle in her eyes was there to stay. In 1982, she ran for state treasurer. As one Texas newspaper coyly described it this week, she had "discovered" the old-style Democratic incumbent was under investigation by the Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle (yes, the same Ronnie Earle that's going after Tom DeLay these days). "Discovery" was no doubt one of those skills she mastered at that round table. Her opponent imploded; she won handily...
...popular because she's a woman who has a nondoctrinaire stance toward politics," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the polling firm CSA-Opinions. "People see her as out to solve problems, while so many others, most of them men, are stuck in the fog of ideology." That's a sense that has taken hold not just in the wider public, but among activists. Socialist Party membership rolls have almost doubled since the beginning of the year, and more of the newcomers are female, better educated and younger than the average. As a crowd filed into...
BURNING AWAY THE COSMIC FOG...
Since then, Andrea has been put back on Haldol and other drugs. Though she has a distorted recall of June 20, other memories are coming back. "It's like a fog being lifted," she tells Rusty when he visits her on Wednesdays and Fridays. Their discussions are blunt but sincere. "If I am going to have an ongoing relationship with her," Rusty says, "I need her to be open." Andrea calls him once a week from jail. They talk while Rusty cradles the cordless phone and paces the empty house. Before Christmas, Andrea asked him to play her snippets...
...SMALL PLATES CINDY PAWLCYN Famed for her work at Fog City Diner, Mustards Grill and Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen, Pawlcyn has been an integral part of the California dining scene for more than two decades. In this book, her third, she culls the best small plates from each of her restaurants, including starters, soups and sweets. Among them are light and airy gougères, silky-smooth corn custards topped with buttery morel mushrooms and delicately spiced lamb burgers...