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Politics comes off as a grim ordeal for her. Bob Dole joked that it will take a SWAT team to evict Clinton from the White House on Inauguration Day, he loves it so much, but Hillary gets more pleasure from one lecture to the women's conference in Beijing than in a year on the stump. He's such a campaign junkie that he pushed a speechwriter out of her chair to tap out Hillary's official announcement speech on Feb. 6 in Purchase, N.Y., then held a Nancy Reagan gaze as he listened to his handiwork...
...answer to the latter question is never seriously in doubt, but Stine offers a battery of heavy-breathing, vicarious shocks along the way as Danielle struggles with such basic bugaboos as guilt, abandonment and helplessness. And he adds a neat twist at the end suggesting Danielle's strange ordeal may be getting its second wind...
...since Modesty Blaise has spy literature seen a heroine as determined and spunky as Flint. Once she has recovered from her near death ordeal, she sets out to track down the villain who maimed her and stumbles ever deeper into the coils of the Enterprise. Eddy gives her a glamorous itinerary, including stops in the Caribbean, Paris, Amsterdam and Cyprus, and plenty of near escapes. Her adventures may be more diverting than credible, but Flint, who emerges from it all as a genuinely sympathetic and interesting character, looks as though she may have some pretty good commercial legs...
...poverty at 68." Roy Wetherington, July 2, 1995, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The farm and livestock of another signer, John Hart of New Jersey, were destroyed. Hart and his wife hid in the woods for several months to avoid capture; she died as a result of the ordeal...
...House win re-election in 1996. Which is why the Gore campaign battled right back last week. "We're not going to take this lying down," a Gore staff member said hours after the news broke on Thursday. On Friday Gore released the transcript of the entire April 18 ordeal. Give him points for that. "I think the truth is my friend in this," Gore said...