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Clinton's youthful style--his emphasis onexercise, his penchant for impromptu trips toMcDonald's, his hugging other men inpublic--seemed to wear well on the crowd.Thousands lined a section of Pennsylvania Avenueoutside the parade route, in the hope that Clintonmight step out of his limousine on his ride to theWhite House...
...Panthers had conspired to kill him back in the '70s also disrupted his campaign, even as it caused people to wonder about his stability. Perot urged the press to check into the behavior of his opponents, but he became petulant when reporters examined his own conduct -- such as his penchant for investigating others and his decision to blow up a protected reef near his Bermuda home. By showing that he couldn't take the heat, Perot convinced most voters that he didn't belong in the kitchen...
...shown that it has a penchant for feasting on high powered teams. The Engineers (1-0-2 overall, 0-0-0 ECAC) are coming off a stunning 2-2 tie of mighty eastern lord Boston University...
Given Ross Perot's penchant for bodyguards and conspiracy theories, it's no surprise that the FBI office in Dallas returns his calls. But the G-men may be a lot less receptive to the billionaire in the wake of last week's revelation that federal agents had conducted a fruitless sting operation against the President's re-election team in Texas. Not since the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s has the FBI found itself so publicly embroiled in national partisan politics...
...student production.' We can, but we won't, talk of student journalism (dreadful), sports, films, politics and music. Such an elysian delight to arrive fresh-faced from high school and pick and choose among multiple student personae. In my college in Oxford, the educational habitation of Oscar Wilde, the penchant for extreme effeminacy and decadence was the mask of many arrivals. Why not waltz with youthful freedom amidst such variety, and try out all the masks...