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...Newcomers: Conan and Chevy join the fray...
Right now the late-night game is in its dog days, or stupid-pet season. The play-offs begin Aug. 30, when Letterman debuts on CBS opposite Leno, with the wild-card teams headed by O'Brien and Chase joining the fray in September. Addressing a network press conference last week, CBS's star free agent had fun from the moment he came onstage and fiddled with a defective microphone ("Oh, it's the GE equipment"). Anything different on the new show? "Well, I'm going to start using a rinse on my hair." Won't his huge salary alienate...
...report sharply criticizing Sessions for abusing the privileges of his job by, among other things, using limousines and government flights for personal business. Sessions made himself look all the worse by publicly accusing his deputy, respected career officer Floyd Clarke, of plotting a coup. Sessions' wife Alice joined the fray. Last month she told a San Antonio newspaper that Clarke was among "10 to 12 people who are bent on" driving her husband from...
...breakthrough came a week after Clinton pulled out of the Finance Committee's negotiations in order to let chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan and majority leader George Mitchell forge the compromise. McLarty said Clinton will stay "a little above" the parliamentary fray at least until the measure clears the Senate and goes to conference committee. "The point," said an adviser, "is to get something on the table so that when the economy gets better, you can take credit...
...seeking the path of least resistance. He is hosting small dinner parties for the Washington insiders he once vowed to ignore. He withdrew from hard-nosed budget bargaining in part to avoid further loss of political capital. Some of this is pragmatic politics, because to remain in the fray over arcane tax provisions, said a White House official, "is a prescription for failure." But there are also signs that Clinton is increasingly spooked by opposition of almost any size. Last week he backed away from a widely leaked plan to name Bruce Babbitt to the Supreme Court when environmentalists complained...