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...sports, deception lurks in the strangest places. Scores, for example, can exaggeragte a team's domination, or they can mask a team's flaws...
...cover has become such natural behavior that Congressmen will go to extremes to duck accountability. The only way Congress could muster the moxie to close 86 outmoded military bases was first to appoint a commission whose recommendations will automatically take effect in April unless rescinded by both houses. To mask its inability to confront the deficit, Congress created the Gramm-Rudman guillotine, which arbitrarily cuts the budget if compromise fails...
This chameleon style may be a shrewd defense mechanism, designed to mask the harsh reality that Bush is more constrained than any other President in modern memory. The borrow-and-spend policies that Ronald Reagan presided over have bequeathed to his chosen successor a downsized presidency devoid of the resources to address long neglected domestic problems. The Bush campaign strategists -- with the candidate's active complicity -- burdened the new President with an obdurate stance on taxes. And for all of Bush's conciliatory zeal, Congress remains an enemy camp; no elected Republican President in this century has come into office...
Disk jockeys across the country broadcast Wright's telephone number, provoking a barrage of angry calls from outraged citizens. Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire juxtaposed a bandit's mask with a portrait of Wright, solemnly intoning that "a pay raise without a vote is stealing." Later Humphrey came as close to blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably...
...Brown did call, it was with advice, and not on X's and O's but on p's and q's. The man who founded the Cleveland Browns and gave them his name, who was fired once himself and had to live for a time on his face-mask patent, basically ordered better nutrition and more sleep. The sagest maneuver of the season may have been the removal of the cots from the coaches' offices in Cincinnati...