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Still, some New Yorkers caution that Giuliani's determination to balance the budget by slashing funds for schools, hospitals, welfare and Medicaid will create problems that a phalanx of blue uniforms cannot solve. "I understand there are budget constraints, but you can't ignore the other side," says Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson. "Reducing crime has to rely on continuing efforts in education and social services. That's what's going to make a long-term difference...
...Speaker Newt Gingrich's lucrative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch- owned publishing house. But before Meek could reach the end of her short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles address at a Republican gathering, Gingrich personally took up the fight, calling the attacks...
...depend on each other for success. The Haitian leader's ceremonial return was visibly orchestrated by his muscular allies. When he arrived a few minutes before noon, it was aboard a U.S. Air Force jet. For his safety, he was allowed only the most subdued reception by a privileged phalanx of dignitaries at the airport, protected by a cordon of American soldiers...
...President enters office with a significant disadvantage -- his own captious party, an alliance of not-always-compatible interests who for decades have squabbled over civil rights, foreign policy and free trade. Perhaps because they are more likely to be a defensive minority, Republicans know how to form a tighter phalanx. During Ronald Reagan's first six years in office, when the G.O.P. had a rare majority in the Senate, they could be counted on to impose unity for the important floor votes that moved through the Reagan program -- with the crucial cooperation of conservative Southern Democrats. Robert Dole, then chairman...
Society now is all too ready to blame the victim, while simultaneously making a victim of the perpetrator. Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, says "The celebrity is constantly being told how great and wonderful he is by a phalanx of yes-men and supporters, so his sense of self-justification is so much stronger. In O.J.'s mind and in his so- called suicide note, he is the victim." Before this is over, Nicole will be the bitch who ate Brentwood and asked for everything she got. As for O.J? He was only...