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...incredulous Liman asked the witness why he did not say, "I, Admiral Poindexter, made the decision and did not tell the President of the United States." Poindexter's lame reply: although he gave the notion "a lot of thought," he waited to consult his attorneys. The result, as Senator Rudman pointed out, was "the agony that we've had for the last eight months" as Reagan was battered with questions about his role in the scandal...
...that, some of Thatcher's countrymen clearly prefer the older Britain, slower paced, caring and imbued with a frayed gentility. Even some Conservatives have expressed concern that Thatcher has seemed callous toward the poor and the disadvantaged. For her part, the Prime Minister argues that she has turned a "lame-duck economy into a bulldog economy." Only vigorous growth, she insists, can support the level of social services Britons demand. The election, she said recently, was not a "choice between a caring party and an uncaring one. All decent people care about the sick, the unfortunate...
Skeptics already call it the "lame-duck summit" because so many of the participants are in the waning stages of their elected tenures. There is also worry about lameness of another kind, a fear that the heads of the world's leading industrial democracies may be powerless to make the kind of daring compromises demanded by a perilous imbalance in world trade and by the threat of global recession. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that a gondola ride through troubled waters lies ahead for the leaders of the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada when they...
Simon's idea of high comedy is to construct sitcom-like scenarios of marital tension and infidelity, milking all the lame laughter he can get out of it. In California Suite, four couples come at different times to the same suite of a posh hotel. They proceed to harangue each other, making snide remarks about their mates' sexual prowess, and to show how very un-funny California life...
...they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town's 45-m.p.h. speed limit. "Crystal Beach is history," exulted Marina Operator Arnold Charpiot, 79, a leader of the antigovernment uprising. "We have thrown out the city...