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...very impressed with her personality," Iriye said. "She's very generous with her time. She's a very warm person...
...running the Senate Whitewater hearings and promoting a new autobiography. This is the persona designed to dim the memory of the Old Al, a cunning machine politician who was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee in 1991 after a dozen influence-peddling scandals had thoroughly soiled his name. "Be generous and fair," the New D'Amato says in conclusion, "not malevolent and meanspirited...
...Contact Group"--the U.S., France, Britain, Germany and Russia--and accepted by the Muslims calls for a 51%-49% split in the Muslims' favor. "We're selling out to the battlefield reality," the Pentagon official conceded. However, sources at the State Department insist that the plan is more generous to the Muslims and is based on the Contact Group's proposals, although details of the map will be different...
...from his most ardent admirers--his teammates. They would watch him come into the clubhouse (sometimes after a late night drinking), tape his legs from buttocks to ankle, then go out and hit tape-measure homers. Unlike the aloof Joe DiMaggio, whom he replaced at center, Mantle was generous and funny and self-effacing. Even in 1961, when he and Roger Maris were chasing Babe Ruth's home-run record, Mantle was supportive of Maris. "I'll always be a Yankee," he once said, and indeed, he followed the fortunes of the club religiously...
...majority leader Bob Dole reluctantly put off action on the G.O.P. leadership's much touted welfare-reform plan (which has already passed the House). Conservative Republicans, including rival presidential aspirant Phil Gramm, are demanding tougher provisions penalizing unwed mothers, especially those who are teenagers. Democrats are insisting on more generous job-training and child-care provisions...