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...Michael Kinsley. "It makes you think, far more than when writing a weekly column, that you need to say something for the ages." Funny, he doesn't sound intimidated -- even though his Essay in this week's magazine does endorse "squeamishness" as a "healthy" attitude for yuppies confronting the servant problem. The rest of the Essay, Kinsley hopes, "will annoy people left and right" -- those on the left because he acknowledges that servants are necessary, those on the right because he recommends such steps as abolition of tipping and uniforms to lessen social distinctions...
...cool to Breyer after they met but responded well to Ginsburg -- seemed to weigh heavily in his decision. Although Breyer told the Administration about the problem weeks before, his fate was sealed by news reports that he had neglected to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic servant...
Major General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald, retired chief of military intelligence, has only contempt for the President he calls "the biggest traitor we have ever had." For 35 years Groenewald was a faithful servant of the state, fighting apartheid's war against the revolutionaries of the African National Congress. Now, thanks to the concessionary policies of F.W. de Klerk, his enemy is the government itself, likely to be taken over soon by the leaders of the A.N.C. "For the first time, we really realize that we are in trouble," he said. "De Klerk and the A.N.C. have said, 'Unless you accept...
...legislative term limits. But Perot won't let them do so, leading disgruntled Perotistas to claim the group has become like a giant pyramid scheme, existing only for the purpose of growing larger. The dispute has produced a sharp discrepancy between Perot's self-image as a mere servant of the volunteers and his need to impose discipline on a movement fueled by independence. "I'm Ross, you're the boss," he tells his followers. When they take that slogan literally, conflict occurs...
...into action by the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro. It seems that their daughter Casilda was married in infancy to the young King and they now want her to take her rightful place as Queen. Casilda, meanwhile, is secretly in love with the Duke's servant, Luis, whose mother is (of course) the former nurse of the King of Barataria who is the only one who can determine the true identity of the King. If you have seen more than one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta you can pretty much figure out the rest of the plot...