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...Such ham-handed tricks might make the widely publicized videotape called The Clinton Chronicles laughable -- if it were not so vicious. It repeats, with little or no evidence, virtually every accusation ever made against Bill or Hillary Rodham Clinton and adds some new ones. At one point, a narrator declares flatly that as Governor, "Clinton was hooked on cocaine." That's all: no further details, no evidence, no corroboration. Worse still, an Arkansan named Gary Parks comes onscreen to voice suspicion that Clinton ordered the murder of Parks' father, without pointing to any proof...
Embedded in the stories of World War II is the legend of Spam, the manufactured ham substitute put out by the Hormel Co. in Minnesota. Spam was a wartime triumph, but the legend is mostly wrong. Several months ago, Hormel celebrated the production of the 5 billionth can of Spam and tried again to explain that the stuff was not included in G.I. rations or fired, as cartoonists claimed, at the enemy or dropped from planes to neutralize hostile populations. Spam -- 15 million cans a week -- went to feed the British and the Russians through lend-lease, the $50 billion...
...Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." G.I. ration or not, Supreme Commander Eisenhower got a taste and encouraged the fiction. "I ate Spam along with millions of soldiers," he claimed. Hormel glories in the tales and lets the jokes continue to roll: "The ham that didn't pass its physical. The meatball without basic training...
...roots in the 1920s, when we had the Decatur Staleys, owned by Staley's starch company, which later became the Chicago Bears. There was the Oorang Indians, Jim Thorpe's team named for the Oorang Airedale Kennels. In Japan today there are many corporate teams, including the Nippon Ham Fighters, owned by a pork producer, but that's baseball. Back in our country, maybe someday we will get the Hormel Spams...
...passengers are getting rowdy: "When are we stopping for doughnuts?" "I'll buy you lunch! I'll buy you a ham-and-cheese sandwich." The officers ignore the gibes. "We get one doughnut comment every day," says a good-natured Krajeski. "And we get offered bribes. One kid offered me a dollar to let him go, but he was special-ed." Says DiAngelo: "We try not to be too hard-ass. We try to keep the relationship open...