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Frances: a Beacon Hill native and frequent traveler in sweltering, mysterious, Spanish-speaking locales. A drinker of Bombay Sapphire gin and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Seen on a post-Sunday brunch stroll with distinguished parents. Seen on a Thursday-night binge with associates of questionable character at Whitney’s bar. Not surprising, then, Frances’ four-year love affair with FM, the weekly collision of high and low culture, sophistication and vulgarity, mètier and booya. Her commitment unquestioned, her sanity less certain, Frances was our raging, deadline-enforcing maniac, our late-night production ass-kicker...
...Crack open a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon...
...longer. Sunday, during consecutive appearances on NBC?s "Meet the Press," Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman urged the White House to appoint a blue-ribbon panel to investigate the intelligence lapses leading up to the September 11th attacks...
...well as their patrons on Capitol Hill. Bureaucracies have a long history of outlasting the "czars" who are brought in to oversee them. "I know a great number of these guys who were czars--energy, drugs," says former Senator Warren Rudman, the Republican co-chairman of a blue-ribbon commission on terrorism. "They start out with great fanfare, but pretty soon the President gets busy, and they're talking to a staff assistant...
...meadow formed one boundary. The terraces below were another: fielders stationed there couldn't see the play and had to be alerted by spectators if the ball was coming their way. As the only male in our party, I was given a pair of scissors to cut a red ribbon tied around the stumps. Saffron paste was daubed on my forehead, a candle was lit, sugared sweets were given to me, a bat was put in my hand and the first ball was bowled...