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...Mitchell and Stutchbury's offices. "Most of the time the paper has a clearly enunciated line on the issue," he says. "Occasionally there's a twist in an issue, but it all gets debated out." If the leader is the paper's soapbox, the opinion page is its sparring ring. Choosing columnists and commentators to spark or review national debates, page editor Tom Switzer says he runs his choices past the editors, who "sometimes have an editorial angle they would like reflected on the opinion page." Surrounded by stacks of journals and back issues, Switzer says claims of a focus...
...meanwhile in germany ... Busy Signal Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement invited anyone who found the new 16-page welfare benefit claims forms too complicated to give him a ring. Days later, he admitted that his office was "completely paralyzed" by phone callers who were referred to a government hotline. Maybe Clement's staff was having problems completing the forms...
...year rise from political neophyte to vice-presidential nominee. "I feel like I've honed my skills as a sounding board as well as anyone possibly could," Elizabeth said last week. "I try to be effective and honest, someone who tells him when what he's saying doesn't ring true...
...Holiday Inn. "It was not love at first sight," she recalls. But Edwards persisted and won her over with his sunny outlook on life. In July 1977 they married at a small Chapel Hill church with no air conditioning. Despite vastly improved finances, Elizabeth still wears the $11 ring that John slipped on her finger that day, and they still celebrate each anniversary the way they spent the first one: by dining at Wendy...
...anticrime campaign that turned a governmental backwater called the Bureau of Investigations (the Federal came later) into the modern FBI. The killings also inaugurated a rollicking two-year carnival of bank robberies and kidnappings carried out by men like "Baby Face" Nelson and "Machine Gun" Kelly, men whose nicknames ring a bell but who, it turns out, we never really knew...