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Overnight, Harvard created a slick, speedy attack to complement its stalwart defense and rock-solid net-minder Rob Lyng...
...next week. The White House, for one, is still debating how best to exploit the Administration's growing advantage in the budget talks. The liberal camp, led by adviser George Stephanopoulos, feels that ending the year without a budget deal is the best way to highlight the President's stalwart positions in defense of Medicare, education and the environment. The opposite camp, led by moderate adviser Dick Morris, does not want to see Clinton campaign for re-election having blocked a congressional majority from passing a balanced budget. For Gingrich and his Republicans, however, entering the same campaign without that...
...smaller roles are all well-played: of special note is Seph McNamara's Horatio, stalwart and strong, and Kirk Hanson's Guildenstern, a truly insufferable twit...
...gruesome fashion--was the underlying portrait it painted of a particular time and place. Here was precisely the kind of teeming social canvas that the likes of Dickens, Thackeray, Balzac, Eliot and Flaubert used to such great effect. We met earthy Salvadoran maids, beadle-like cops, bumbling civil servants, stalwart limo drivers, beaten-down screenwriters manquas and, of course, comically obsequious houseguests. Occupying the top of the social pecking order in this modern-day Middlemarch was the defendant himself, living a life that would be the envy of any 19th century man of leisure: pleasant days at the country club...
...appearance. But he was not universally applauded. State senator Burt Cohen, a Democrat, left the chamber in a huff even before Reed spoke. "He [Reed] represents a dangerous trend in this country. We should keep religion and politics separate," Cohen said later. Another state senator, Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic stalwart, heard Reed out. But she also was offended. She said, "Anytime you paint yourself as having the right answers because of a direct connection to God, that's very dangerous...