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Foley's prickly challenge to term limits is precisely why his 30-year lock on a House seat is now in jeopardy. "People are saying that he's become too big for his britches and that he's just out of touch," says Randy Pepple, a Seattle G.O.P. consultant. Flapping hard from the lofty perch of House Speaker, Foley's venerability is his greatest vulnerability. Nethercutt, a youngish Republican lawyer with boundless energy and a ready smile, punches out the message that Foley has succumbed to Beltway-think. "Mr. Foley is a nice man, but he personifies Congress's reputation...
Here was a gaudy show of Clinton's channel-changing skills, his rescindable reality, his now-I-mean-it, now-I-don't. The last, final, no-kidding, planes- in-the-air, lock-and-load, ah'm-gonna-knock-yo'-haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed -- surprise! -- into Jimmy Carter's dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger...
...them or setting them on fire. "What could you do?" asks McClinton. "Tell his grandmother? She'd yell at him, and he'd be right back on the street. If the police picked him up, they'd just bring him back home because he was too young to lock up. He was untouchable, and he knew that...
Like the European powers in the fateful August days of 1914 leading up to World War I, both owners and players became locked in unyielding stances that made protracted trench warfare inevitable. The few bargaining sessions that were held before the strike quickly degenerated into formulaic speeches and sarcastic byplay, all accentuated by the growing animosity between the voluble, chain-smoking Ravitch and the intense, almost humorless Fehr. "Did you see how unpleasant he is?" Ravitch asked rhetorically about Fehr before a joint TV appearance Friday. "It's never been like that in all the negotiations I've been involved...
...going on. I don't think people will follow Steinbrenner or Angelos either." Still, Angelos deserves credit for floating the sensible idea that the owners should voluntarily eliminate the rationale for the union's strike by pledging two things: to impose no unilateral salary cap, and not to lock the players out of next year's spring training. He also proposed that prominent outside accountants examine the books of all 28 teams to clarify how many are actually losing money. Team finances are even more mysterious than the infield-fly rule. Selig initially claimed that 19 teams were...