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Suppose, though, the Administration keeps dropping hints that Saddam after all might soon be thrown out, dead or alive, and that in fact the U.S. has a hush-hush operation under way to get rid of him. That just might defuse the issue long enough to get Bush past Election Day -- without the need to actually do anything. Still, the leaks and hints could do some damage by leading the public to believe the U.S. has far more chance of finally finishing off Saddam, and a much better developed strategy for doing so, than is really the case, thus setting...
When the five former First Ladies and Barbara Bush walked slowly across the courtyard of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last week, someone watching interrupted the hush and whispered, "There are the real heroes...
Criticizing the "hush" atmosphere and police type surveillance common in many museums, Professor of Fine Arts Norman Bryson contrasted the traditional disciplinary model of a museum with the "vagabond" model, where art objects are not arranged based solely on their media...
...dream machine of the 1920s, with sharkskin-inlaid running boards and a 12.7-liter engine, one of only six that were built before the Depression put an end to such automotive fantasies. Even the school kids, who race through the rooms of painting and sculpture, fall into an awed hush in front of this one, as their ancestors were once supposed to shut up before a Rembrandt...
Beyond the whispering campaign, Gorman's attorneys hint at coercion. They suggest his programs were dropped from the satellite owned by James Bakker, of PTL teleministry notoriety, as a quid pro quo for Swaggart's business on the same system, and for the Louisiana preacher's silence about PTL hush money to Bakker paramour Jessica Hahn. If that was the deal, it didn't last: within a year Swaggart became one of Bakker's denouncers and helped bring about his resignation and PTL's financial collapse...