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...like something out of Ally McBeal. By last Tuesday morning, rumors had been swirling for days that the Vermont Senator was thinking about leaving the Republican Party. That morning Jeffords stood in a rest room off the Senate floor staring at his haggard face in the mirror. Republican Senator Pat Roberts sidled up to him at the next sink. "Jim, how you doing?" Roberts asked. Jeffords just shook his head...
...Pat, Tom and Rod (The guys I came out with from New York) would be a little perplexed, but I could figure out an excuse and leave a note at the condo before I left. When I got home I could send out a preemptive e-mail to everyone whom I (stupidly) had told about the trip. My wife knows me well enough, she wouldn't say a word, she'd just let me sleep it off. Nobody really cares about biathlon anyway. I could make up whatever I want.... Say that I did really well. They wouldn't even...
After Jordan left, I hoped the championships would start rolling in. Instead, the Knicks only found new ways to lose. One year, fan favorite John Starks would inexplicably go 2-for-18 in Game 7 of the Finals, and Pat Riley would refuse to take him out in favor of sharpshooter Hubert Davis. Another year, Reggie Miller would score eight points in 18 seconds to steal an early lead from the Knicks-the series ended when Ewing missed a game-winning layup from two feet away. Another year, the Knicks would go up 3-1 on Miami—only...
...George W. Bush, saying "we can postpone action no longer," announced his 16-member Social Security panel charged with putting the nation's oldest entitlement on firmer financial footing. Democrats claimed that the panel, to be led by former New York senator Pat Moynihan and AOL Time Warner exec Richard Parsons (corporate overlord of this publication), is a pre-cooked group sure to recommend some version of the partial privatization plan that Bush pushed during his campaign. And they're probably right...
...always orchestrated to achieve pre-cooked outcomes. The trick for an administration is to come up with a grouping that appears to have been formed to look at the wide range of options. Smartly, the White House put pro-privatization Democrats to work, including former New York Senator Pat Moynihan. That helps deflect charges of table-rigging by allowing the White House to say the group is "bipartisan...