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...College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...
...aide sarcastically. "That would have been smart politics? They knew what they were doing. This is the most sensitive issue in the country. They tried to sneak it by us without a serious round-table discussion, which it obviously demanded, and they succeeded. We've tried to keep a lid on abortion stuff so we could fight one fight on it, in the health- reform debate. Now they've made that harder. You tell me who at HHS said they gave us time to consider having the decision come out the other way, and I'll kill...
...CHESTS Lid closed on head or neck...
...numbers. Not all rivals for the fruits of education are convinced that such an invidious system would be fair play. Some black intellectuals who have a stronger faith in self-reliance have argued that competing minorities would be better off raising their own academic standards rather than clamping a lid on Asian-American industriousness...
Loss of the "control tower," as the Japanese press has nicknamed Ozawa, would be a sharp blow for the coalition and for Hosokawa, who depends heavily on Ozawa's intimate knowledge of political hardball in the Diet and elsewhere. "Every pot has its perfectly matched lid," says Tomoaki Iwai, a politics professor at Tokiwa University. "It is heaven's dispensation. They are one system...