Word: paule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at people's faces, you see a disappointed face." In fact, if he goes three or four jokes without a laugh, he starts to shake and falter. "Laughs are like the energy I feed off. I gotta leave on a laugh." Unlike most comics, the St. Paul, Minn., native likes the road. "I just love hotel rooms. I love not having to get mail because mail is usually depressing...
...which is unacceptable to opponents of any national ID plan. "Certainly we advocate a complete repeal. Anything short of that would be a defeat," says Patrick Poole, deputy director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Technology Policy. Poole has found an ally in Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who's introduced legislation to rescind the Transportation Department plan. Paul blames Congress for passing the law in the first place, then trying to shift the blame to the Transportation Department. "It has been said even by the author of the immigration bill that the intent was not to have...
...nursing-home industry reacted coolly to Clinton's punitive tone, saying a "collaborative effort" is needed to solve the problems. "Enforcement activity alone is not the answer," said Paul Willging, executive vice president of the American Health Care Association. "In fact, a single-minded emphasis on enforcement will ultimately hurt quality." But the GAO report argues that many nursing homes have become dangerous places largely because they are understaffed--and underregulated. Nursing homes spend 2 out of every 3 dollars on payroll, so the most tempting way for them to increase profits is to cut personnel. And the Federal Government...
...presented last fall by the New York City Opera, the two principal male characters were stripped down to skimpy loincloths and chained together, to underline what Zambello believes to be the opera's homosexual subtext. "Cesca is an artist with a strong mind and a point of view," says Paul Kellogg, the City opera's general and artistic manager. "And whether one agrees with her approach or not, I can tell you that it makes for exciting opera...
...fans, who always viewed Maris as a placeholder until the second Ruth, are rooting for McGwire to erase the imprint of the asterisk. The younger fans are pulling for him too. So the pressure is entirely different from what Maris faced. Still, even the positive pressure can be draining. Paul Molitor, who made a go at Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, says, "I would go home after a game, and it was like an out-of-body experience. My face would be up there [on TV], and everyone would be talking about whether I was going to break...