Word: loyalist
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...sound 40 at the ripe old age of 18, but I have not choice. The cards, at 79 cents a pack (plus tax), cost twice as much as the did just five years ago. And I doubt that's just inflation. Nevertheless, it was my duty as a baseball loyalist to dig deep for the extra change...
...young group's case of institutional colic is mostly past, however. The loyalist majority now boasts 50 state chapters, each firmly under the stewardship of a paid director chosen at Dallas headquarters. "It was difficult to communicate when we had a growing membership without an official organization structure," says Georgia state director Richard Taylor, applying the official spin. "We are changing that...
...make appointments comes the blame when many have gone unmade. The most visible unfilled post, chief of protocol, has already brought public embarrassment. While the Clintons have dithered over whether the job should go to a man or a woman, someone with Washington diplomatic experience or a Little Rock loyalist, events that should have garnered goodwill for the pair have sparked only resentment and enmity. The most disastrous incident occurred at the most important affair so far, a White House reception in honor of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Scheduled to be there at 4 p.m., the President...
...agreement that might end the power struggle. The President's face looked puffy, and he paused often, setting off mutters among his foes that he was drunk. Maria Sorokina, a Deputy from Lipetsk, her voice almost breaking, went to the podium to say she had been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long will we put up with this disgrace?" Yeltsin's aides later explained that he had not slept for three nights and was exhausted. "These are difficult...
...bloodshed illustrated just how fragile peace can be. Somalia's warlords, though supposedly disarmed, are still capable of turning bloody at a moment's notice. "Somali people do not care if there is a war or not," said a gray-eyed Aidid loyalist. "If you are a gunman, you can't leave off fighting. That is your...