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...blisters began to form. Upstairs, amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...future for the temporary convenience of the present," Reagan said. "To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheavals." The trend did not continue -- it accelerated, doubling the $1 trillion debt that he deplored, then doubling it again. Reagan's 67-mile-high stack of $1,000 bills, Clinton said, now reached up 267 miles. By the end of his speech, Clinton had grabbed hold of all that Reagan professed, wrapped it in burlap and cast it aside...
...planes have crashed and no lives have been lost -- so far. But TIME has obtained a stack of pilot reports linking a series of "anomalies" to a wide variety of electronic gadgets, from laptop computers to Nintendo Game Boys. In one striking example, a plane flying out of Chicago started veering off course while its VOR dials dimmed and danced around. When the passenger in seat 9-D turned off his laptop, the report states, the "panel lights immediately brightened dramatically and all navigation aids returned to normal...
...cold day set James Baker apart from normal working folks. Consequently, Clinton's chief of staff, Mack McLarty, will be making his own way to the office. Of the 45 cars at hand for portal-to-portal service in the Bush Administration, only 16 will remain. That stack of six pristine daily newspapers on every desk in the West Wing: gone. White House mess privileges, which were what separated the merely important from the princes who whisper in the President's ear, will be extended to the clerks who sort the mail, if they can stand the food there...
Both teams have similar records. How does your team stack up against Harvard...