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...could have failed to notice that for all the furor they have raised, the Brawley advisers have hardly helped solve whatever crimes were committed against Tawana Brawley. Wrote New York Daily News Columnist Bob Herbert, who is black: "If Robert Abrams or anybody else wants to send somebody to the slammer for contempt of court, Glenda Brawley has three high-profile advisers who more than qualify...
Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke claims to have "won thousands of convictions for drug-related crimes" during his seven-year career as a prosecutor. But it was he who started much of the furor over legalization by calling for a national debate on the issue in an April speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. For drug dealers, says Schmoke, "going to jail is just part of the cost of doing business. It's a nuisance, not a deterrent...
...comes through that Don Regan doesn't really like me." At a lunch with Columnist Carl Rowan, Reagan played the angry husband. "I'll be damned if I just sit by and let them railroad my wife," he said. He noted that Nancy was upset for having caused the furor, but Reagan then told her, "No, honey, I brought all this down on you by taking this...
...ethical debate, he nonetheless brings as much delight as despair to his portraits of panthers on the prowl, sharks in a feeding frenzy, business guys in suits. This may be partly because the characters are drawn from Mamet's real life in Hollywood. Part of last week's media furor about the play, in fact, was the assertion that Mantegna's role is based on Ned Tanen, head of production at Paramount, which made The Untouchables, while the obsequious producer is said to be a sketch of Untouchables Producer Art Linson, a self-described Silver look-alike. Says the apparently...
...importance of a job that John Nance Garner ridiculed as "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." There are five stages in the downward slide of a Vice President: 1) Euphoria, which rarely outlasts the convention; 2) Examination, as the press rummages through back closets searching for another Ferraro furor; 3) Ennui, which sets in when the nominee learns that he is not permitted to make news as he barnstorms in backwaters like Biloxi and Butte; 4) Ephemeral Elevation, a honeymoon that lasts until the new Veep sees through the pious promises that he will be a "full partner...