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...Sununu be dumped for his abuse of government transportation. "But Sununu is not the same chief of staff," claims an aide. Sununu got the message: either abandon some of your perks or leave. Bush bent him with what one White House man termed "presidential tough love," a mix of ire and affection that even leaves a little room for humor. At last Thursday's Al Smith dinner, Sununu deadpanned about the difficulty getting to Manhattan: "The problem was we had trouble landing the B-2 in Central Park...
...prescription drugs were pitched only to doctors, primarily in medical journals. But as competition for market share intensifies, more drugmakers are doing as Upjohn did, crossing the once inviolable line and appealing directly to patients. This high-powered approach, combined with some questionable marketing practices, has provoked - the ire of FDA chief David Kessler. "Promotional practices, to be blunt, have got out of hand," he recently told drug-industry lobbyists...
When the document was released last February, it was read avidly -- more than 42,000 copies have been sold -- and with growing ire. Before the Baltimore assembly, more than half the church's 171 administrative districts and 2,000 local congregations had condemned it. The document helped cause something akin to schism at the second largest congregation in the country: Dallas' Highland Park Presbyterian Church. Already alarmed at liberal trends among the national leadership, Highland Park members voted 2,563 to 2,001 last month to quit the denomination altogether. They fell short of a required two- thirds majority...
...stricken nation famous for two cash crops: sugarcane and big- & league shortstops. Klein depicts the Dominican "academies," where teenage prospects are recruited, trained and evaluated by major-league clubs, as "the baseball counterpart of the colonial outpost, the physical embodiment overseas of the parent franchise." Even though Klein's ire is sometimes ill-concealed and the book actually contains a section called "Baseball and Symbolic Analysis," Sugarball serves as a reminder of the true meaning of the baseball term farm system...
Even as tough a character as Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir could have been excused for wavering under the pressure last week. Instead of concentrating its ire on Iraq, the U.S. joined in a United Nations condemnation of Israel, intensifying fears that the gulf crisis may ultimately be linked to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All the talk of a peace deal in Kuwait sent another shudder through Shamir's government, leading many members to conclude that they may not get to see Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch...