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...weekly radio address, President Clinton chided House Speaker Newt Gingrich for dragging his heels on their agreed-upon commitment to create a nonpartisan panel on political reform. Clinton named John Gardner, the Republican founder of Common Cause, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as consultants for such a commission. A Gingrich spokesman called Clinton's remarks a "cheap shot...
...most important politicians last week, he looked for all the world like a junior executive, neatly attired in a crisp, dark suit and starched button-down shirt, dashing, luggage in hand, from taxicab to commercial aircraft. At times, he thumbed through his history book of the moment, Doris Kearns Goodwin's new biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But there was nothing mundane-or junior level-about his encounters. In addition to New Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school prayer and choice. He then socialized with...
...more important than the rest of the game, and he brought in a reliever. All about the park, you could hear the debate rage over Boone's move. But then Harold Baines of the O's drove the ball deep to center, and everyone stopped to watch as Tom Goodwin made a sensational diving catch...
Alas, the no-hitter was lost in the eighth, but the fans still went home happy, albeit wet, after the Royals' 5-1 win. They were talking about Appier's stuff and Cal's streak and Goodwin's catch and the new grass. As Ripken says, smells like baseball...
...prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were handed out by Columbia University's journalism school in 21 categories. Among the winners: History-No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Fiction-The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields; Poetry-Simple Truth, by Philip Levine; Biography-Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Joan D. Hedrick; Drama-The Young Man from Atlanta, by Horton Foote. The Virgin Islands Daily News (circ. 16,400) won in the Public Service category for a 10-part series on crime...