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There's only one thing worse than business books: business novels. A new spate -- with titles like The Quadrant Solution and Flying Fox -- dispense the usual wooden phrasing and boring platitudes with, occasionally, a clunky hint of sex. Quadrant offers a numbing exchange about business expansion, interrupted by a long kiss. From the steamy dialogue in Fox: "Relax," she said. "Have another glass of water." Puh-leeze...
Bush had heard the stories that in 1981 the defeated Jimmy Carter, riding up Pennsylvania Avenue with Ronald Reagan, had not waved to the crowds. Bush was determined to avoid any hint of sourness. He waved spiritedly. Along the avenue, in the midst of the sea of adoring Clinton fans, was a sign thrust high, THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH. Clinton spied the placard first, pointed it out to Bush, and they laughed and waved together at the brave survivor...
...report, insisting that they never offered Letterman the Tonight job. "The goal was always the same," said entertainment president Warren Littlefield: "Is there a way to keep both of these talented people on NBC? And ultimately, without giving away 11:30, there was no way." But even the hint of a last-minute abandonment of Leno was yet another public relations blow to a network that, by this point, may wish it had never heard of the Tonight show...
Several party veterans predict privately that the President-elect will need to be far more decisive for this Clintocentric system to work, and hint that he'll need to rely heavily on a White House staff to sort out the big decisions from the small ones. But last week many of the same officials questioned whether Clinton had chosen a staff of sufficient depth and heft to meet the challenge. Before Clinton tapped a conspicuously young White House staff, party elders tried in vain to bring in more seasoned Washington hands. "This whole thing has been structured as spokes...
...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grades" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities...