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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from Congress. Then he finds himself in an impromptu Air Force One press briefing on campaign finance, assuring us he will offer himself to Janet Reno for questioning. As if all this wasn't enough, Clinton now has to decide exactly how he is going to use his line-item veto pencil on the $248 billion Defense Appropriations bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUESDAY: Pork and the President | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

...their clothing into those who were observing the holiday and those who were not. This is diversity in action, some might say. Yet it is the sort of diversity in which you see other people practicing some bizarre thing and it means nothing to you, except as an item of curiosity, like a strange relic in a museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just Another Friday Night | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Take for instance Pollini's performance of Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pollini Delivers Populist Agenda | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...captured this imbalance even as it mirrored the same problems of mistaken focus. An article Monday on the missing videotapes of wealthy folks hob-nobbing with the President over coffee explained: "Mr. Clinton hoped to devote the day to sounding an alarm over global warming and wielding the line-item veto on unwanted military projects. Instead he and his aides spent hours defensively answering questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Washington, District of Contradiction | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...this very article on videotapes got nearly equal prominence with the article describing how Clinton used the new line-item veto to slash $287 million dollars of pork off of a military bill. And what the videotape hounds don't tell you until the fourth to last paragraph is that the videotapes released thus far have indicated "no illegal actions" on the part of President Clinton or any other Democractic Party official...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Washington, District of Contradiction | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

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