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...this spirit of quasi-camaraderie that I must voice my concern over an article which appeared in the paper December 8 entitled, "Lampoon Compers Interrupt Club Even," by Alec E. Permison...
...November 1, Clinton supporters shouted at the White House, "Two more days! Two more days!" George Bush, though, had more than 80 to go, and he seems to be making the most of them. The nagging reminders that he's still president do interrupt nobler dreams (Clinton's ethics code for his transition team as an astounding example...
...health care costs and health insurance premiums climb at a dizzying rate; employers, on whom the system has depended for decades, take desperate measures under intense pressure; the numbers of people uninsured or underinsured rise steadily; government at all levels appears unable to take even the smallest steps to interrupt the spiral. There is no good news to provide balance...
...official dubbed it "the rubber room" and said there were straitjackets on pegs outside the door -- something Gallagher denies. So complete is the site's inventory that it now includes birth-control pills -- not because of any anticipated sexual activity but so that female officials would not have to interrupt their pill-taking cycles...
...then did I realize how closely the bad taste of former rulers was connected with their bad way of ruling. I also realized how important good taste was for politics. During political talks, the feeling of how and when to convey something, of how long to speak, whether to interrupt or not, the degree of attention, how to address the public, forms to be used not to offend someone's dignity and on the other hand to say what has to be said, all these play a major role. All such political behavior relates to good taste in a broader...