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...film's more memorable tidbits, Nomi's two-timing boyfriend unintentionally sums up the whole misguided mess, confessing, "I've gotta problem with pussy. I always have and I'm always gonna." We KNOW, Mr. Verhoeven. We know...
Still, the majority leader must be relieved to have the Packwood mess out of the way. A parade of heavy legislation is headed for the House and Senate. This week Dole's welfare-overhaul bill is expected to come to a vote on the Senate floor. Almost immediately, debate over Medicare follows, along with sweeping tax cuts that will be rolled into a jumbo bill carrying out the G.O.P.'s economic agenda. And on top of all that, Congress has yet to complete 12 of its 13 major spending bills--at least four of which face the prospect...
...more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess; besides, conservatives shouldn't promise Utopia. If the Standard can shake up its friends in every issue, it could become the standard by which the other guys are measured...
...didn't mention the Clintons-or Whitewater-at all. Starr hammered the point home: "The indictment does not charge criminal wrongdoing by President William Jefferson Clinton or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton." To White House officials, this was vindication: Starr, they believe, has accepted their contention that the Whitewater mess was only one small scam in a host of shady deals by Jim McDougal...
...State Department suggesting that Alpirez, once an agency informant, had been involved in two ugly, politically explosive murders in 1990 and 1992, and in fact the CIA had paid him $44,000 even after linking him to the first death. (Alpirez denies any guilt.) Torricelli said the mess was consistent with CIA support of some of the most blood-drenched elements in Guatemala's armed forces, which have killed more than 100,000 fellow citizens in the past 30 years. He intimated that the National Security Agency and the Army had also engaged in cover-ups of Alpirez's acts...