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Left unanswered in the last-minute senatorial rush to heap praise on Champion were questions about his opinions on issues like welfare reform and national health insurance, as well as potential conflict-of-interest problems arising from his previous position at Harvard. After generating some heat, but very little light, the members of the Finance Committee failed to resolve the very questions they raised, and ignored issues of possible future importance. Sadly, the Champion confirmation hearings resembled the circus that was performed all too often on Capitol Hill this spring...
...Justice Department, not to mention the "Souza case"? And written up in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek? The story is long and more than a little twisted, but perhaps indicative of the slow road to the top of the American political heap...
...film. The increasing tempo of excitement is matched by tighter, more frequent cutting. Scenes alternate from light to dark. A solitary tree stands still in a haunting though brightly lit field. Bits of broken chairs, marred by flame, are discerned in the warm earth-tones of a neglected garbage heap. A light flashes on a bank window. Nelly stands across the street by a bicycle. When Pierre dashes out we realize the two have become accomplices...
...caves that served as their home, Mao once discovered that Chiang Ch'ing had bedded down on a heap of bedbugs. Mao formally renamed the cave "Bedbug Headquarters" and helped start an "extermination campaign "against the vermin. Another time, during a difficult mountain march in a driving rainstorm, she was wearing the only rain cape in the entire army. Though it was soggy, she offered it to him-and he reluctantly accepted. (This, observes Witke, was a personal victory for her.) A little later, he removed a thermos flask of liquor from his belt and silently passed...
...never been more optimistic in my entire life. I feel completely assured that President Jimmy Carter will provide the leadership, motivation and quiet enthusiasm that this nation so desperately needs. My five youngsters are doing just great. Quite soon I expect to be back on top of the heap where I belong...