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...Center at Texas A & M University, a post he has subsequently taken. Wilson said he played "no role" in drawing up the document brought to him by government lawyers with the assurance that it was "proper and legal." Said a Senate staff member: "Poor Don Wilson. They held a pen to his head...
...opponents of the amendment, like port-addicted Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, can defend their tenuous position only by offering silly one-liners ("It's a quack pill") and obscure metaphors ("It's as poisonous as the poison that Hannibal carried in his ring or Demosthenes carried in his pen"). That is certainly interesting language, but it does not constitute a valid argument against such a necessary bipartisan measure of fiscal discipline...
There's a new president in office, and millions of Democrats and liberals are watching him eagerly. Watching as, with a stroke of a pen, he signs the long-suffering Family Leave Bill. Watching as, with a wave of his arm, he lifts the ban on gays in the military or restores rights to abortion counseling in federally funded clinics. President Clinton is clearing out so much of the last 12 years' dirty laundry that you have to wonder what else he could do with so much individual power...
Clinton has not had much of a chance to sign a treaty, but he shouldn't lock away his ceremonial pen; there are plenty of ex-Soviet republics with nuclear weapons. In addition, there will undoubtedly be many economic agreements to be consummated between the U.S., the European Community and emerging Southeast Asian nations. With the situation of the Israeli deportees unresolved, Clinton might even see a replay of Carter's Camp David talks...
...vision will be reinforced in the coming weeks by a series of bulletins from Silicon Valley. EO Inc., which last fall unveiled the first pen-based computer with a built-in cellular phone, will begin shipping finished products sometime this spring. Apple Computer, which has been teasing the press with carefully measured leaks about a pocket-size bundle of wonders called Newton, will belatedly deliver the first models sometime before summer (having missed | a self-imposed deadline last month). And this week a company called General Magic, which has been surrounded with breathless secrecy since it was founded three years...