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...Quayle claims vindication. No, he hasn't discovered that potato really has an e after all. But in his just-published memoir, Standing Firm, he does insist that the world has come his way on the question of family values and Murphy Brown. Even Bill Clinton, Quayle observes, has said "there were a lot of very good things" in Quayle's famous speech on the subject...
...veteran of the county school board when a cumulative election for that body knocked him off. "A lot of % people thought I had it made, so they split their votes," he says. "I've learned a lesson. With cumulative voting, you're running against everybody -- like you're a potato in a basket." The system, he claims, is fair to minorities but not majorities, "and ((white)) people don't like it. They don't like...
...wife and neighbors smile, Douggan describes the feast. "Corned beef and spare ribs and cabbage and lots of potatoes. The Irish love potatoes. Not just one potato either, we have five or six each...
Boston's population did not become significantly Irish, however, until the mid-19th century, when immigrants flocked to the city to avoid Ireland's potato famines. Since then, the Irish-American community has become a permanent fixture of Bostonian society. For 104 out of the past 110 years, the mayor of Boston has been of Irish origin...
...around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter tops"), Sammy (Steve Zahn), who is gently receding into the wallpaper, and Troy (Ethan Hawke), who is a philosopher-couch potato, fired from his job as a newsstand clerk for eating a Snickers bar without authorization...