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...could describe the Pacific war thus: "For most Americans ... it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism," there was no point in negotiating. You don't amend such tendentious anti-Americanism. You kill it. You scrap the 600-page commentary and follow the advice of General Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb: display the restored Enola Gay in reverent silence, with only a few lines explaining what it did and when...
While same-handed confrontations on the average favor the pitcher, managers can let the situation get out of hand. A great pitcher hurls well against almost everybody, while your old heap of scrap metal reliever will stink against most batters. Please don't relieve Roger Clemens with Greg Harris unless the guy is really tired--it just isn't fair to the fans...
After Day 1, scrap your carefully drafted and jam-packed shopping list. Don't set goals you can't meet--you have the rest of the semester to do that. Instead, go have coffee with the long-lost friends you haven't seen since last shopping period...
...ranks. The freshmen were firmly behind Gingrich in supporting the version that not only mandated a balanced budget by 2002 but also required the three-fifths majority to raise taxes. Told that opposition from Democrats and many moderate Republicans made that provision a sure loser, some freshmen preferred to scrap the budget amendment altogether. With conservative talk-show hosts working the microphones to support them, they balked at leadership pleas to compromise their notions of muscular Republicanism. ``They were very upset with us,'' says DeLay. ``We went through about a week and a half of gnashing of teeth...
...routine denunciation of Speaker Newt Gingrich's lucrative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch- owned publishing house. But before Meek could reach the end of her short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles address at a Republican gathering, Gingrich personally took up the fight, calling...