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...explains. "It's a matter of discipline." Verbosity is also a dodge for anxious politicians who lack thoughtful things to say. Nonetheless, the Vice President's newly restored confidence seems genuine. It is based, he says, on Bush's strong support of him and on his age: "I'm going to have time to cast the true identification of Dan Quayle out to the general public." In five months as Vice President, Quayle has demonstrated to fellow insiders that he is an effective Administration operator. But it will take more than that, and more than the discipline he is striving...
When golfer Lee Trevino was leading this year's Masters tournament, he proclaimed to a press assembly, "If a man had walked up to me and bet I couldn't break 76, I wouldn't have taken a quarter of the bet. And I'm a gambling man." As the New York Yankees began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from...
...Super Bowl press box, a writer let out a small whoop as the Raiders blocked a Redskin punt in 1984. "I'm sorry, that was really unprofessional," he said sheepishly. "But I've got $2,000 on the Raiders." Win or lose, does the two grand get into the story, affect the quality of the praise, increase the vitriol in the criticism? What...
Chaim Waldman is one of the self-proclaimed vigilantes. A zealous American Jew who moved to the West Bank from Columbus, Ohio, seven years ago, Waldman considers himself a part-time commando waging a messianic struggle against his Palestinian neighbors. "When I go out in my car, I'm hunting for Arabs," says the 37-year-old engineer. "I put a bullet in the chamber of my M-16 and keep it pointed out the window with the safety off." He deliberately shifts his Peugeot station wagon into low gear as he enters Palestinian villages to steady...
...Paramount bid on the grounds that it reflected a "campaign of deception and manipulation" to derail the Time-Warner merger. The suit alleged that Paramount feared the competitive impact of a Time-Warner combination and was intent on keeping such a merger from taking place. Said Nicholas: "I'm convinced that Paramount's was a spoiler...