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...gin up support for his embattled plan, the President went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, but his session with House Democrats turned out to be a political pep rally. White House officials had been complaining in recent weeks about what one top Democratic aide called "the failure of Democrats to crow about the economy." Fearful that lawmakers will be unprepared for criticism of the President's performance during the 12-day recess, the White House readied a 20-page guide on how to argue the President's case while visiting with voters back home. The list of accomplishments: lower inflation...
...that it's over, I feel like going and breaking into the Lampoon, stealing their chairs and drinking their gin. Now that would be witty...
...first learned about the martial art from a close friend at MIT twelve years ago. Fascinated by its power and grace, he joined the Gin Soon T'ai Chi Club in Boston, where he practices his technique under the instruction of Master Gin-Soon Chu. Master Chu was a student of the famous Grandmaster Yang Shou-chung, the world leader of the Yang School...
...diplomatic parlance, Clinton's trip is in large part a "confidence- buildi ng measure." He intends to persuade Western Europe that the U.S. is still involved in Atlantic affairs despite its recent concentration on the Pacific Rim and the North American Free Trade Agreement. "We need to sort of gin up the collective spirit of Europe," he said last week. He will also try to reassure the Central European states that he is concerned about their security while at the same time soothing the apprehensions of Yeltsin and his generals about an encroaching NATO...
...small fee: red wine, white wine (cheapo California vintages), domestic beer, imported beer, vodka, gin, rum, Bailey's, Kahlua, Tequila, whiskey, bourbon, cognac, brandy...