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Reader Steve Smalling compared the second constitutional convention to a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett [March 12]. Personally, I prefer to think of it as the renovation of a historical landmark that if left alone would soon fall into decay and oblivion. Even the White House has to have a coat of paint now and then...
Republicans in Congress, who had been complaining about the dawdling pace of the peanut probe all along, immediately protested Bell's action, saying that he had not gone far enough to free the special counsel from possible Justice Department interference. Republican Presidential Hopeful Robert Dole called the special counsel role "a perversion of the whole concept of an impartial investigation." Said Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who is also expected to declare for the presidency: "It is not proper for the Administration to be dragged kicking and screaming into this investigation...
Almost from the start of his Administration, there have been reminders of years gone by. His flexible policies, his easy use of hyperbole, his variable definitions of statements have sometimes suggested a man so bent on capturing friends that language became too casual. In his eagerness to cast himself in the best light, he occasionally appears to bend the facts to fit the moment. His skein of contradictory statements about the reasons for firing U.S. Attorney David Marston, who was probing political corruption in Pennsylvania, was most likely one of those convenient misunderstandings, probably a tiny incident in Carter...
...state of authentic tackiness. La haina boasts some 30 restaurants and about 260 stores whose offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS, MAUI NO KA Ol (Maui is the best) and HERE TODAY GONE TO MAUI. On the town's bustling waterfront, tourists cram aboard the 50-ft. trimaran Trilogy for daylong sails, or the 65-ft. glass-bottomed boat Coral...
...island, many natives converse in pidgin English, the world's most colorful lingua franca. A dark-hued hotel waiter, cussed out by an irate Texan who has received the soup in his lap, retorts: "Eh, now, no take out on me, you stupid buggah! Udderwise bimeby I gone broke your head in small tiny pieces...