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...price. The weekly Woman's Day and the Sydney-based TV show 60 Minutes reportedly paid them $150,000 for their story. The two plan to marry, reports the Woman's Day cover story, headlined ``Our love wouldn't die.'' Gushes d'Alpuget: ``He's got the stamina of a man of 40. Am I smiling or what?'' Western Australia's Premier Richard Court was disgusted: ``When former Prime Ministers are selling stories about their private lives for money, I think it is as low as you can go.'' CALCUTTA: Arsenic Agony When villagers in the Indian state of West...
...Thurmond (R-S.C.) too old to chair one of the most powerful committees on Capitol Hill? Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Warner (R-Va.) reportedly met recently with Majority Leader Bob Dole to raise concerns about whether Thurmond, the Senate's oldest member, had the stamina to run the Armed Services Committee. Today, after receiving assurances from Dole that he was "an excellent senator," Thurmond spoke out: "I think it's just a little power play and there's nothing...
That view seems shortsighted for two reasons. First, the Democratic base alone won't re-elect Clinton, and the swing voters he most needs disdain old- fashioned liberal solutions like raising the minimum wage. Second, the President's real problem involves a perceived lack of resolution and stamina. If Clinton lets his proposed hike die quietly and holds instead to his original diagnoses and prescriptions (which were right then and are right now), he might come across more like a President than a perpetual candidate--and possibly get the four more years he covets...
...Thurmond (R-S.C.) too old to chair one of the most powerful committees on Capitol Hill? Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Warner (R-Va.) reportedly met recently with Majority Leader Bob Dole to raise concerns about whether Thurmond, the Senate's oldest member, had the stamina to run the Armed Services Committee. Today, after receiving assurances from Dole that he was "an excellent senator," Thurmond spoke out: "I think it's just a little power play and there's nothing...
...only Taylor's piano technique, but his stamina itself is astonishing by the 1960s. The mental stamina needed to keep a group together in a period when he couldn't possibly make a living playing his music is matched by the physical stamina of a true athlete: Taylor's all-out assaults on the piano have both arms moving at a rate of hundreds and hundreds of machinegun rounds per minute; and he solos for up to thirty minutes on a stretch. The volume and intensity level of these performances is not merely the result of turning an amplifier...