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...actually recognize all the members of President Clinton's Cabinet will note as they watch his State of the Union address on Jan. 25 that one Secretary is missing from the audience. It is a little-known tradition that one Cabinet member does not attend the speech, lest some calamity occur and wipe out everyone in the line of succession to the presidency. There is no rule for how the designee is chosen, but he or she is typically told at the last minute. For too long, the men and women who shoulder this terrible burden have done...
Sympathy for the Devil: Lest it be forgotten, Satan was once an angel, the most exalted...
...suit that started off the current saga. Fields let slip that because a grand jury in Santa Barbara was considering a criminal indictment in the same case (leveled by a 13-year-old boy who says the entertainer sexually abused him), the civil suit should be put on hold lest Jackson inadvertently incriminate himself during the proceedings. The other lawyer on the Jackson team, as well as everyone else following the case, suddenly did a double-take. What criminal indictment? As the press made frantic but fruitless calls to the Santa Barbara County office, Fields backpedaled and admitted that...
...very difficult to take it seriously from a writer for a newspaper which embroiled itself for several months in an almost childish dispute over whether or not the president of the publication would have to remove his shirt to get his own chair back from a group of writers. Lest I be confused for White, I will not resort to this easy cheap shot. Instead, let me say that the recent controversy over the results of the UC Vice-Presidential election were anything but scandalous. The disagreement was a genuine dispute over the nature of parliamentary procedure. To its credit...
...chill has begun. The entertainment community isn't taking any chances as Disney cut the offending scene and MTV excised any references to fire. Perhaps NBC News should show some solidarity and cut out coverage of the California wildfires, lest any children get the wrong idea...