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...particularly remembers one morning about 17 years ago when he heard a loud ruckus outside his office in Mass Hall. Drums were beating and people were shouting. He peered out into the Yard, and saw an elephant turning the corner of the building...
PEOPLE: Yes, it's Madonna, raising a ruckus again...
Rubino's charge was hyperbolic, but the ruckus over Noriega's tape-recorded telephone conversations had taken a bizarre new turn as the FBI got into the act. Declaring they were looking for "stolen government property," two bureau agents visited the hotel next to CNN's Atlanta headquarters, where Cable News Network investigative reporter Marlene Fernandez was staying. The agents said they were summoned by hotel security, but they did not have a warrant, and they carried off a videotape and sundry papers, despite the challenges of a CNN lawyer on the scene. Network president Tom Johnson said he protested...
Among the members of Congress raising the greatest ruckus as Washington descended into budgetary chaos were those most responsible for creating the mess in the first place. There were Reaganite conservatives like Newt Gingrich of Georgia for whom vote-winning formulas -- including the infamous "Read my lips, no new taxes" -- are more important than the national interest. There were Democratic liberals like Henry Waxman of California, whose vision of the government as a cash cow for special interests helped spawn taxpayer revolts and voodoo economics. And there were the special-interest lobbyists whose phone-bank politics stampeded Congress into...
Ever since the National Endowment for the Arts stirred a ruckus by funding an exhibition of photographs with explicitly homosexual themes by Robert Mapplethorpe, NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer has ducked public appearances. Last week he testified to a commission probing the NEA's grant policies. Claiming that a display that "leads to confrontation . . . would not be appropriate for public funding," he came up with an outrageous example. He suggested that a photograph of Holocaust victims displayed "in the entrance of a museum where all would have to confront it, whether they chose to or not," might...