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...fire department has the right to legislate. Not these people," he said, pointing at Sullivan and another witness. "It lies on my back. We owe that to the people...
...Clinton fell hard for George Mitchell when he played Bob Dole in the campaign-debate rehearsals. Despite minimal foreign policy experience, the Democratic Senator was touted as the front runner for days, only to falter when Democrats showed even less enthusiasm for him than Republicans did. Mitchell may also owe his eclipse to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who went to his friend Bill just when the deal seemed done to make a strong pitch for Richard Holbrooke, the ambitious architect of the Dayton accords. Clinton didn't care that Holbrooke would break a lot of careers and egos...
...good to be true. That calculator you got as a free gift for opening your account was, er, flawed. It has been adding up your bills all wrong and leading you to underestimate how much is left in the checking account. You can pay what you really do owe without giving up the weekly movie...
...general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government--and do not have enough political muscle to resist...
...favorite teaching fellows ever, I'm reading some of the best books I've encountered in college, and I like going to lecture. Sure, if you want it to be a gut, you can make it that, but I honestly believe you can make most anything a gut. You owe it to yourself to do better than that...