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...recently as the first week of September, nose counts in the House showed Clinton falling 80 votes short of the 218 needed to be fairly sure of victory; by last week he was still down 30 votes. That reckoning gives Clinton eight or so legislators from sugar-producing areas who are expected to be won over by a special agreement granting sugar some extra protection from Mexican competition but who for tactical reasons are staying officially uncommitted right now. The sugar agreement is an example of a White House strategy to essentially buy votes by working out special deals...
...Some people are sensitive to certainingredients," Wong says, growing emphatic. "Somepeople are allergic to MSG, for example," he adds.Then Wong picks a crab out of a bowl and, shovingit in this reporter's face, its talons danglingdangerously just millimeters from his nose, hesays defiantly, "Some people re allergic to crabs...
...story. Despite my nose ring, I'm still identifiable as someone well-off and comfortable. The cops had on trouble taking me at face value...
There is one aspect of cloning, though, that writers have largely overlooked: its potential for laughs. The most obvious exception to that rule is Woody Allen in Sleeper. The high point of the film comes when Allen's character kidnaps the severed nose of a Big Brother-like dictator before it can be cloned to oppress the world once more, and holds it hostage at gunpoint. It's hard, though intriguing, to imagine what ethicists would do with that...
...fitting that the editor who brought both Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern between hard covers is, in her own world, as controversial as either. A former reporter for the National Enquirer, she joined Simon & Schuster in 1988 without a lick of book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book...