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...didn't find anything that good last Thursday on American TV--just the usual hash of soaps, Sesame Street, talk, news ("We begin with a child's torment--a young boy beaten by a pipe!") and reruns of '70s cop shows, the latter accounting for most of the nonjournalistic violence. All told, I witnessed five killings, one every half hour. Not too horrific, but the count surely would have been higher had AMC been featuring John Wayne instead of Ronald Colman...
Within a year of becoming minority whip, Gingrich was already obsessed with the next job, which became clear when President Bush and congressional leaders met to hash out a deal to reduce the deficit by $500 billion over five years. This was the first time Gingrich was invited to sit with the grownups. If his goal had been to perform as a successful whip who rounds up the troops and keeps them in the party line, he would have used all his energy to support the deal Bush, Dole and minority leader Bob Michel worked out. But Gingrich...
There are some people at Harvard who look forward to eating dining hall hash browns. There are some who visit their favorite Harvard museums every weekend just to see the fossils. There are some who take full advantage of their houses' sunny courtyards on bright fall and spring afternoons...
...conscious storytelling, a slip-shod version of Catcher in the Rye. Its central character, Jimi Banks, graduates from college and, overburdened with a lost love and a friend's suicide, turns himself into a cheap-thrill escape artist. He seeks to lose himself in foreign countries, foreign liquor, hash and lusting after women...
...however, Congress may be called in to help right a fiscal and bureaucratic mess. Representative James T. Walsh of New York, chairman of the congressional subcommittee that oversees the District's financial affairs, said he has already contacted White House officials to hash out bailout scenarios, including the establishment of a board to take control of city finances. Walsh told that his congressional colleagues are leery of Barry's proposal because the District has failed to make good on promised cuts in the past. ``The Mayor has basically said we should give him $267 million...