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...Speech at the '81 championship parade: Bird took the podium and shocked everyone with his comment. Responding to a sign in the crowd. Bird said, "Moses Malone does eat shit." Moses had been the star of the Houston Rockets who lost to the Celtics. This remark was one in a long line of entertaining quotes from Bird...
...world of diplomacy, where perception and precise language are everything, the incident pointed up Clinton's unsure handling of foreign affairs. British officials were particularly leery of one Clinton remark: "I always tell everybody, I'm a Baptist; I believe in deathbed conversions." Said a senior British diplomat: "We don't need a Southern Baptist attitude, as we had with Jimmy Carter. We need pragmatism...
...posture toward China might not have been as counterproductive as he had once believed. A Clinton official denied that any reversal had occurred a day later. But the President-elect's back-and-forth maneuver, also a common tactic of Bush's, led an outgoing White House official to remark, "It all sounds eerily familiar...
...remark by a senior Bush administration official following a speech at Harvard last week may have complicated the peace process in Liberia's ongoing civil...
During the run-up to this week's vice-presidential debate, Quayle suggested that he would be at a disadvantage because he was a product of public schools while Gore had mainly attended private schools. If the remark was intended to paint Quayle as a man of the people and his rival as a privileged elitist, it was disingenuous to say the least: both men sprang from well-known, well- heeled and politically active families. On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs. The Vice President's maternal grandfather, Eugene...