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Buddy was waiting at the top of the stairs of Special Air Mission 28000, the plane to New York. The Bush people wanted to lend Clinton a DC-9, but he held out for one of the two 747s that rotate as Air Force One. Hillary has told friends she's worried--with her days full and Bill's suddenly empty--that Bill is going to be lost. But the Comeback Kid, who stretched out the Longest Goodbye in history, says he looks forward to getting rested, making money (he just turned down $2 million for a Super Bowl...
...interesting to learn from Jackson's book ON WHICH THIS ESSAY IS MARGINALIA, I SUPPOSE, that friends would deliberately lend Coleridge their books, knowing he would mark them up endlessly. Thus, the lenders would be getting back a book improved by Coleridge. [Unless Coleridge were high on drugs...
...aggressive cultivation of Senate Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch and other key Republican leaders. Freeh and his circle made no secret of their active antipathy toward Bill Clinton personally and the Clinton White House. Yet, for the incoming administration, Freeh, as a Clinton appointee , retained Democratic party sanction that could lend a patina of bipartisanship to the Bush national security team...
...barriers to voting--including racial prohibitions, poll taxes and literacy tests--stand in the way of counting valid votes. And Justice John Paul Stevens spoke for disillusioned observers everywhere when he declared in dissent that the decision to stop the vote count and declare Bush the winner "can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land...
...things like cars and major appliances as manufacturers lure back customers. Keep cash equal to at least three months' expenses if you can. That's less important when you're debt free because you have ready access to credit. But be careful: banks are getting picky about whom they lend to, and may not renew your plastic...