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After his parties ended, Thomas used to weep himself to sleep. He'd feel like he had given apart of himself away, and he'd retreat into post-partum depression. But Thomas is a lot happier these days. He doesn't cry that much anymore. He can give without feeling empty...
Green is working closely with McElroy on environmental studies, and will deliver a brief report on the topic at the at June academic planning retreat of deans and administrators...
...Perot complained, "This is an interesting game we're playing today. It would have been nice if you would have told me you wanted to talk about this, and I'd have had all my facts with me." Shortly after this hapless performance, Perot announced that he plans to retreat from the spotlight for a while to commune with unnamed policy experts, as if he could acquire ideological direction off the shelf just like a business buying a state-of-the-art computer system...
...part, Ross Perot, still the wild card among the Big Three, tried to scramble out of the political spotlight with a self-imposed hiatus in his un- campaign. The Texas billionaire, citing "saturation bombing" of his offices by the press, beat a strategic retreat to search for answers to the questions he should dread: his specific stands on the budget deficit, health care, urban policy, international aid and every other complex problem that elicits reams of position papers from presidential hopefuls. This clever move comes at the right time, just when the press is beginning to dig its unforgiving claws...
...FATAL RETREAT: It was shortly after 5:30 on the fateful afternoon of April 29 when a still containable riot turned into a rout. Roughly 25 police officers were trying to restrain an angry crowd at an intersection in South Central L.A.; an attempt to make arrests prompted shouts, rock throwing and pushing and shoving between the police and the mob. An amateur videotape taken at the scene recorded a voice shouting over the police loudspeaker, "I want everybody out of here. Florence and Normandie. Everybody. Get out. Now." As the outnumbered police drove off, the rioting roared...