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...leadership in the Senate. "There are several outstanding senators who are more than capable of effective leadership and I hope we have an opportunity to choose," Nickles announced last weekend. Nickles, who has acted as Lott's right-hand man for years, is not considered to have the Mississippian's ability to work closely with Democrats, or to compromise. And as far as the right wing of the GOP is concerned, that's just fine. For moderates, however, and even for President Bush, Nickles' tendency for intractability could mean more fruitless standoffs with Democrats - catastrophe, in other words...
...they come to pin the blame for this disruption on the strange women in the Convent is a tale of Faulknerian complexity and power. Morrison once wrote a Cornell master's thesis on Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, and the Mississippian's incantatory prose rhythms still crop up in her writing. Here is Deacon musing on the past as he drives around in Ruby: "He [Deacon's grandfather] would have been embarrassed by grandsons who worked twelve hours five days a week instead of the eighteen-to-twenty-hour days Haven people once needed just to keep alive, and who could...
...talking about," he says. "It's likely it will become law." Clinton and Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, have been talking regularly. Lott was in minority leader Tom Daschle's office last week when Lott's pager went off, telling him that Clinton was calling. The Mississippian hustled back to his office to take the call in private. When he explained the delay to Clinton, the President laughed. "Well," Clinton said, "tell Tom I called to tell you I'm switching parties." That would be one way to lock in a legacy...
...political life arguing that work has to come before play, Dole spun around and embraced Jack Kemp and his supply-side optimism for reasons more tactical than spiritual. He may still not believe it will work, but he can believe it will help him win. Trent Lott, the Mississippian who replaced Dole as Senate majority leader, was shocked, although happily, saying, "I would'na bet 50' a week ago that it'd be going the way it's going...
...Dole's surprise announcement in May that he would resign from Congress, the second-term Senator from Mississippi with made-for-TV hair needed just one day of lobbying his colleagues to be confident of victory. "I work fast," said Lott, who also talks fast, after he swamped fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran by a vote of 44 to 8. "I probably talked to 40 Senators within 24 hours...