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...Paula Jones' sexual-harassment charges against Clinton gathered steam last month, Wright sipped Diet Coke in her sunlit office a few blocks from the White House and calmly defended him once again. The former chief of staff to the Governor of Arkansas has gone through a transformation since the campaign. Gone are the sweatshirt and slacks. The new Wright can afford an expensive haircut and smart, stylish dresses. Still the same, however, is her fierce loyalty to her old boss. "For 10 years," she says, with a flinty, blue-eyed gaze, "I doubt Bill Clinton was ever gone 15 minutes...
...legislative train...is building up a head of steam and will soon leave the station," he said. "But we do have a truth-in- legislating standard to meet and that requiresme to remind you that we still haven't found thehealth fairly. And we're not terribly optimisticthat we will...
...Holsworth of Virginia Commonwealth University, "is that the guy's a ticking bomb." Still, Robb faces weak opposition from three little-known challengers in his party's June primary. And the Clinton White House has signaled its preference for him. But even if none of his obscure challengers gathers steam, Robb is not assured of a clean shot in the general election. His longtime foe, former Governor Douglas Wilder, would like nothing better than to send Robb back to lawyering. Wilder has been grumbling that Virginians deserve a better choice than Robb vs. North. If they win their parties' nominations...
...with it, the notion of smoking as a soothing arbiter of middle-class behavior. Like the loosening of a necktie, it signaled a relaxation into informality at the end of a meal or the start of a baseball game, before drinks or after sex. Even for the solitary steam fitter or housewife, the act of sending a geyser from mouth to ceiling could envelop the user in a penumbra of calm thoughtfulness. It was an empyrean for daydreams -- the cloud of smoke our thoughts went...
Assuming the investigation produces no shocking revelations that somehow implicate the P.R.I. in Colosio's death, Zedillo is a strong front runner for the August ballot. His two main rivals have yet to gather steam and his party, though not the monolith it used to be, is still dominant. And, of course, he wears the glowing mantle of the martyred Colosio...