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...PUBLISHER: Mr. Clinton, we were not born yesterday. You have displayed a genius for the presidential imitation of Jimmy Swaggart, the sincerity-dripping prayer-breakfast public pseudo-confession, which is a variation on your brilliant "we've-had-trouble-in-our-marriage-and-leave-it-at-that" formula that got you and Mrs. Clinton through the Gennifer Flowers episode just before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. You know how to tell a story, or seem to tell a story, while skating away from the dirty details, and making it all seem - blink, blink - like a sort of dream...
...PUBLISHER: Mr. President, we're honored you brought the proposal to us. But, er, frankly, we think the asking price of $12 million is a little steep, considering... CLINTON (bristling): Considering what? This is history in the raw - Bosnia, welfare reform, Gingrich, government shutdown, Osama Bin Laden, Kosovo: years of lightning, days of drums. I'm the only one who can tell the story...
DIED. FRANCES HORWICH, 93, educator and kindly bell-ringing host of the 1950s children's show Ding Dong School; in Chicago. During the half-hour program, which paved the way for Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, "Miss Frances" taught arts and crafts, told stories and offered simple lessons. She won a Peabody Award...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there's something that should perk up his interest in environmental issues. Welcome home, Mr. President, there's cow doo-doo, as your daddy used to say, in the water. Bush's weekend ranch is on Rainey Creek, which runs into the Middle Bosque River. About six miles away is the North Bosque River and two counties over is Erath County, home to at least 250 factory dairy farms called CAFOs, for confined-animal feeding operations. The CAFOs milk as many as 2,000 cows a day, and the county has about 110,000 dairy...
...complain that their main competition in China is the Filofax. "We started from zero. A complete nothing," Sher says. Today the employer of 900, he likes to needle rivals, notably Hi-Tech Wealth president Zhang Zhengyu, a software engineer who got his start distri-buting Sher's products. "Tell Mr. Zhang: 'Please, work hard to improve your technical know-how. You are still very inexperienced,'" Sher jibes. "'If you don't improve, your company will have a very short life...