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Overnight, Harvard created a slick, speedy attack to complement its stalwart defense and rock-solid net-minder Rob Lyng...
...that some of Starr's activities gave off an odor, but added later, to others, not to him. He told the Washington Post last Tuesday that he feared coming off "like a Mafia figure who's pleading the Fifth Amendment." Perhaps forestalling the need to hire a third ethics minder for the first two ethics counselors, Dash plans to leave on May 23 for a two-month teaching vacation...
...part, Gingrich did not exactly enjoy the full faith and confidence of his revolutionary guard, which is why majority leader Dick Armey was there to play the role of Gingrich's minder. For months Gingrich has used his hard-line freshmen as a foil in his negotiations. The White House has not always believed his hands were tied, but in recent days the tension between Gingrich and his troops was obvious. When the negotiators decided to tighten the circle, the White House wanted Armey gone. But Gingrich insisted he stay, saying that excluding the majority leader would be unacceptable...
...time Thomas Stevenson died, in 1887, leaving his son financially independent, R.L.S. had acquired another intrusive minder, his wife Fanny Osbourne. Biographer McLynn clearly despises Fanny and her extensive family-which, at the time R.L.S. met her, included Belle, a spoiled 18-year-old daughter; Lloyd, a rotten 11-year-old son; and a useless, not-quite-divorced husband. Not all biographers have seen things this way, as McLynn admits, but he is persuasive. Fanny was 40 when they met, 10 years older than R.L.S., an artistic poseur given to spiritualism and hypochondria who tried to cut Stevenson off from...
...even with net-minder change, Colby controlled the third period, outscoring Harvard 2-1 and never leaving the outcome of the game in doubt...