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...This is a four-star hotel," adds Skip...
Sour grapes? Spilt milk? Some observation about what you have to do to make an omelet? Lunching at Restaurant Daniel, a four-star establishment in Manhattan ("I never cook anymore"), Guarnaschelli dismisses Corn's complaint: "I thought maybe she could deliver a great chapter. It wasn't what I could use. That's all there is to it." What about all the turmoil surrounding the preparation of the new Joy, most of which has been blamed on her? "I'm emotional, but I'm not difficult," she counters. "I'm dramatic, I'm intense, but people like to work with...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anxious to right himself after a bruising year, is turning his guns on a retired four-star general: BARRY MCCAFFREY, President Clinton's drug czar. "Dismal. Baloney," GINGRICH scoffed at McCaffrey's antidrug strategy. "I met with General McCaffrey two months ago and said, 'I want a World War II-style victory plan--a decisive, all-out, cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture...
...endorse it. But in the end, he said, he could not "in good conscience" accept the treaty as written. "There is a line that I simply cannot cross," he explained, "and that line is the safety and security of our men and women in uniform." Says a retired four-star general: "He couldn't take on the Chiefs." And if he had, there is no way the Senate would have ratified the treaty with the nation's top commanders against...
...good things about the military is that it does respect rank," says Gorelick. "I had the equivalent rank of a four-star general, and in the military you don't just get respect, you have to slowly earn...