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...secret anti-Clinton operation formed inside the Pentagon in 1993. When Clinton arrived that year and announced his plan to loosen rules on gays in the military, a network sprang up overnight between uniformed officials in the Pentagon and their allies on Capitol Hill. The phones began to hum; e-mail chains were forged. Before long, the Pentagon had the Hill pledging to stop just about any Clinton proposal the military didn't like. When rumors of Rumsfeld's cuts began to circulate, the wires began to clatter anew. "What the uniformed guys put in place to undermine the last...
...probably haven't heard of this new movie, which opens this week. If you have, it may not seem very appealing. Paramount's TV ads are ho-hum. The title has the word "rat" in it, which has all the allure of "colonoscopy." So do yourself a favor, turn to our critic's review on the following page, and take his advice: Go see it. Even in Hollywood, Paramount's competition has been murmuring respectfully about Rat Race's remarkably successful test screenings. And you should also be aware that the film actually has nothing whatsoever to do with rodents...
...there was little surprise that Suzuki won the pot, it was because, just over a quarter of the way through his first major league season, there is little surprise about anything he does. Suzuki is named American League Rookie of the Month for April? Ho-hum. Suzuki has back-to-back single-double-triple games? Big whoop. Suzuki rifles a one-hopper from the right-field wall to home plate? Yawn. Suzuki is on pace to break George Sisler's 81-year-old record of 257 hits in a season? Zzzzzzzz. Suzuki imprisons Saddam Hussein, discovers a cure for AIDS...
...After the failure of their documentary and double live album, Rattle and Hum, fans were becoming skeptical of the band's sincerity because of their commercial success. U2 knew that they needed a change...
...They come pouring forth from long unexplored recesses of my mind. Strange. The memories of the tutorials, the seminars, the lectures and the classes—the very reason for attending Fair Harvard—are shrouded, misty. Sure. I recall John Finley’s final Hum 3 lecture. I remember being awed by Professors James Q. Wilson and Otto Eckstein as well as being astounded by Stanley Hoffman and Michael Waltzer. But I haven’t the foggiest memory of what any of them actually said...