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...With the prospect of dying he isn't hopeless," says R. Michael Lopez '97. "He's not just defeatist. He knows he already has what he needs. He has something to look forward...
When he is not in attack mode, Armey can be highly productive. In 1987 he launched a crusade to close obsolete military bases, an almost hopeless cause in a Congress where everyone defends home-state pork with a passion. But Armey advocated giving a bipartisan commission the full authority to do the job. Passage of this measure altered his reputation as a legislator, proving that he could listen and persuade. Yet his highest skill lies in attack by ridicule, usually through the deft use of symbolism. It was Armey who first unveiled a Byzantine chart of the Clinton health plan...
...Lessing -- always doubting, exacting, comparing. Under My Skin (HarperCollins; 419 pages; $25) is not so much a recollection of her early life in Southern Rhodesia as a dissection of it. Remote styles of life -- in a colonial outpost at the end of the British regime in Africa, with its hopeless yearnings and longings, and in communist circles of the 1930s, with their blithe and heartless dreams of a brave new world -- come under a moral microscope. How legitimate were people's . experiences? How well have youthful agendas held...
...they don't, then you know the fans are hopeless and you can save your energy and voices...
Tribe said yesterday that any appeal by Kramer would be "hopeless...