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...return. "God knows what they could have gotten my mother to say," Clinton joked, joining Gingrich in his mockery of the press. To complete the reconciliations, Gingrich and his mother later accepted a handwritten invitation to the White House from Mrs. Clinton -- hereafter to be known as the gracious First Lady. When Gingrich emerged from the White House, he said he sensed "a very real willingness to try to find a way to try to work together." The White House liked much of what Gingrich said. For example, on who could offer the bigger tax cuts: "We cannot have...
What the Clintons don't understand as they make nice with the Gingriches is that the offense is not that the First Lady hasn't been gracious enough but that she has presumed too much. As Hillary was inviting Gingrich and Mom to the White House, buttons were spotted on Capitol Hill...
...Conner, the world's most famous sailor, has been less than gracious. At a regatta dinner in Newport, Rhode Island, last August, he called the women's team "a bunch of lesbians," prompting team navigator Annie Nelson to douse him with her rum-and-coke. "He was way out of line," says Nelson. Trenkle, who was standing nearby, maintains that the comment was "locker-room humor. They were joking around." Many of the women were not amused. "Ninety percent of us are either married or have steady boyfriends, but who cares?" says mainsheet grinder Stephanie Armitage-Johnson...
Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats President Maggie L. Carter '96 tried to temper her party's losses with some gracious bipartisanship...
...there a deft little lesson here in how to distinguish raw genius from cautiously tutored craft? You bet there is. But Allen and McGrath also recognize how rude, disturbing and inconvenient greatness can be. And they grant gracious absolution to pretentious mediocrity, once it learns its place. Allen bathes his fable in a seductive, rosy light, grants everyone in the wonderful ensemble cast a comic high point, and gives us a film that combines impeccable craftsmanship and a basic exuberance that's been missing from his work for years...