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...Deaver affair has also raised some political ruckus in Canada, where opposition Liberal Party members suggested that Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government may have knowingly violated U.S. laws by hiring Deaver. In particular, they questioned the possible role played by Allan Gotlieb, Canada's highly regarded Ambassador to Washington, in recruiting Deaver. The House of Commons' External Affairs Committee will decide this week whether to launch a formal investigation...
...crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight and the players seemed to enjoy raising a ruckus so I tuned out the ESPN announcer who was pontificating about sportsmanslike conduct. A few minutes in the penalty box, I thought. A couple teeth. A little blood. The crowd likes it. The players like it. I like it...Everybody's happy...
Among these small events are the fates of his sons. Henry's first novel creates a minor ruckus and earns him a name as one of England's angry young men. He marries his younger brother's sweetheart, Agnes Salter, writes screenplays, divorces, weds an adoring younger woman and becomes a cranky old reactionary. For his part, Fred woos and loses Agnes but decides to follow her father's practice as the village doctor. His new mentor espouses a mission that frees Fred from messianic impulses: "I don't deal in right and wrong. I deal in collywobbles and housemaid...
...felt that the dispute was politically damaging to the Administration. Regan's fiat came after Meese's Justice Department launched a surprise attack in August by submitting a draft of a presidential order that effectively branded Labor Department hiring goals as illegal quotas. The tactic raised such a ruckus that the Justice Department judiciously retreated. Regan then told Meese and Brock to come to an agreement on their dispute before taking it to the President...
...world. They are also, for what it is worth, the putative future King and Queen of the United Kingdom. It is unavoidable that they be relentlessly scrutinized, endlessly clucked over and often wickedly sniped at. Of late, however, they have stirred up even more than the usual ruckus on three separate continents. Two weeks ago, they captivated an audience of 18.6 million when they appeared in an unprecedented 45-minute interview on ITV, Britain's independent television network. (U.S. viewers will be able to see a portion of it this week on ABC's 20/20.) They talked soberly about their...