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Bennett called that Sunday to back out. If not you, Reed asked, then who? Again Bennett told him, "You oughta look at Jack." More and more, that was the thought in Dole's mind as well. His other potential choices were not panning out. For a while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal...
Oops! After the Alanis Morissette song You Oughta Know won a Grammy, the Mississippi house of representatives passed a resolution honoring the native son who wrote it, Glen Ballard. Then lawmakers read the lyrics. Shortly after they came across the F word, they rescinded the honor...
...Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar work more aggressive. The songs are about such topics as postbreakup rage (You Oughta Know) and overbearing parents (Perfect), and while the words are rarely as smart as they seem to think they are, this is straight-ahead rock, sweetened somewhat with pop melodiousness...
...people run the country; whoever's got the biggest gun is the biggest man.... It's the way it oughta be, did fine back then, I don't think it would...
...State Department, referred to President Dwight Eisenhower as "Pops," got Jimmy Carter to sing Salt Peanuts at the White House and copped one of those fancy medals from the Kennedy Center. He even ran for the highest office a couple of times himself (sample campaign lyric: "Your politics oughta be a groovier thing/ So get a good President who's willing to swing"), announcing that he would make Malcolm X Attorney General. None of this prankishness or social acceptance blunted the edge of his music: he initiated, almost singlehandedly, what's now called Afro-Cuban jazz, and as late...