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...fuss? For starters, Mecham, 63, has a daunting image problem. A veritable faux pas factory sporting a constant smirk and a vindictive manner, Mecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks. In February he asked for a list of state employees who are gay. Says Republican State Representative Jane Hull: "This state has had enough. It's just getting too damaging...
...Minister Andreas Papandreou, 68, may need to know. For more than a month there have been parallels between the scandal that enveloped the former U.S. presidential candidate and the furor over the amorous antics of Greece's leader, who has been married for 36 years. The cause of the fuss: Dimitra Liani, a sultry stewardess in her early 30s and the Prime Minister's frequent companion...
Wisecarver said she decided to write to Bork because "he's kind of quiet." She said she supports his nomination and does not understand what all the fuss is about...
...than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...
...long run, most of this fuss is for nothing. If we remember anything five years later about a movie's conclusion, it is usually an image, a scrap of dialogue or a performance, not how the plot unraveled, congealed or died. Unfortunately, most movies these days are made for the very short run; their futures are often determined by the opening weekend's box-office take. And the feeling is that nothing brings the kids in like rumors of big action along a plot line full of hairpin curves. A lot of movies with bliss-out potential are blitzed...