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...confusion in Florida has postponed all that, at least for while. Powell doesn't want to be a part of anything presumptive, and that has given Bush another opportunity: to see if he can talk Democrat Sam Nunn into joining his team. It would be something of a mini-coup. Nunn spent 18 years in the Senate and was his party's pivotal player on national security for most of that period. But would Nunn do it? When Clinton came in eight years ago, Nunn wanted State, not Defense. And then he tangled with Clinton over gays and the military...
...McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source of all that is infuriating about lawmaking: pork barrels, partisanship, gridlock and the refusal of individuals to occasionally heed their consciences instead of their parties. It is why smart men like Bill Bradley and Sam Nunn and Warren Rudman gave up on the Senate entirely, and why McCain can't seem to get a thing past Trent Lott. America seems to agree with him, but it may be long past trusting anyone in office to do anything about...
...NAME SPEAKERS INCLUDE...] Richard Allen, Bill Buckley, Alexander Haig, Edwin Meese, Sam Nunn, Caspar Weinberger...
...ABOUT NIGHTINGALES Looking back, Tennessee Williams probably found his early, unproduced play crude and lacking in poetry. Both are true. But Trevor Nunn's intense production (which had its U.S. debut at Houston's Alley Theatre) also shows off the raw power of a dramatist on the verge of greatness...
...Nunn has done a masterly job of taming this unruly work. The audience sits, theater-in-the-round style, on opposing sides of a long stage. At one end is a two-level block of cells; at the other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer...