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Chainani also helped to throw a Mardi Gras party in March, complete with a "pre-invitation" two months prior to the event, followed by another two weeks before the get-together...
...with visions of the coming apocalypse, passing judgment on the last century of human progress and awaiting the Second Coming and the birth of the Antichrist. Codrescu's messiah, impressively, manages to surf the web, enjoy an orgasm, save humanity and open a restaurant all in time for Mardi Gras...
...minutes / Approximate length of ethnic grievances between Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo 320,616,000 minutes (since 1389) / Length of time between Clinton¹s acquittal and his proposal to use force to enforce an armistice in Kosovo 1,440 minutes / Tulane University students celebrate Mardi Gras for 10,080 minutes / Time left in lent 6,480 minutes / Time it took cosmologists to affirm that the universe won¹t collapse 8,640 minutes / The year of the rabbit has been going on for 1,658,880 minutes / Overboard, starring Goldie Hawn, runs 106 minutes / hasty Pudding Theatricals?...
...Clintons were careful to learn from their mistakes, especially the post-impeachment pep rally on the South Lawn, which had convinced many moderates that Clinton still thought of himself as a victim, deserving of cheap grace. If a full acquittal this week triggers an early Mardi Gras inside the White House, the bitterness among Republicans and disgust among Democrats could become a kind of poison in the system. Clinton's outside advisers are pushing for discretion. Says one: "I hope he just gives a 30-second statement saying, 'I'm glad it's over,' and goes upstairs for a cold...
...head was nodding. Those scribbling most energetically were not necessarily the most attentive: Senator Byron Dorgan was writing on cream-colored stationery what looked like thank-you notes. John Breaux hunched over two nearly identical briefing books, one on the trial, the other on an upcoming Mardi Gras event. Jay Rockefeller, a compulsive highlighter, covered entire pages in yellow. Bob Kerrey drew a rainbow. Joe Biden kept taking out his pocket calendar, as if it must surely be February by now. Senator John McCain perked up enormously when a page delivered a phone message. What fun, a hall pass...