Word: remarkable
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...Republican chairmen is setting traps on such things as defense spending and the global free-trade agreement. And everywhere the rhetoric is getting nastier. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms felt free to say on CNN that Clinton is not up to the job of Commander in Chief -- a remark that was widely regarded, even by some of Helms' ideological brethren, as very nearly unpatriotic. Earlier in the week the crusty Senator, who will chair the Foreign Relations Committee, dispatched what read like a ransom note to the Administration, threatening tough handling of Clinton foreign policy if next week's vote...
...another home.' " Becky and T.J. McManamy of Charlotte, who went through seven au pairs in four years -- two good, five bad -- say they let go of Lindsey, an aloof Briton, after she told them, "Your children are not safe with me." When the McManamys tried to pass that disturbing remark on to AuPairCare -- first by phone, then by certified letter -- the agency didn't respond. DuToit now says the McManamys misinterpreted Lindsey's remark...
...threat. "We always knew the senator was never a threat or a target of an investigation, but we had to follow up," said Secret Service spokesman Jaime Cagigas. Jim Rosen, the Raleigh News & Observer reporter whose Monday interview with Helms started the fracas, says the senator made the remark "with a bit of a laugh, which perhaps should have been better conveyed in the article."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrichmade an effort to be more statesmanlike in an interview aired last night, apologizing for calling the Clinton White House staff a bunch of "McGoverniks" after Election Day and ruin his "enemies of normal people" remark. "The truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have...
...right wing -- to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods." North's campaign staff seized on the phrase to accuse Gore of insensitivity to children with Down's Syndrome, pointing out that extra chromosomes cause the condition. Gore soon apologized, calling his remark "inappropriate" and "insensitive...