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...vote, which was intended both to punish Shamir and to mollify the Arab states aligned with the U.S. against Iraq, offered the strongest indication yet that the gulf crisis may gradually forge a new U.S. approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Frosty stares and stiff messages between Washington and Jerusalem are hardly rarities. But the gulf crisis is fundamentally altering American interests and alliances, strengthening ties to Arab states that will expect more evenhandedness from Washington in return. Officials in Jerusalem and Washington -- one side in fear, the other in hope -- are privately predicting that if Bush prevails against Iraq...
...shocking story can be told: George Bush is a Democrat in disguise, a mole who has burrowed deep behind enemy lines for the sake of the party of the working stiff. It is the only logical explanation for the President's recent political behavior. Even top Democrats have begun to lift the veil on their mission impossible. "The President has been our best ally," says Paul Tully, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "We're just trying to stay...
...Dins are not stiff and some other groups are," Hill says. "The Dins do new humor at every concert. They do new songs at every concert...
...with a tape recorder and then printing a list of the students who attended. Two years ago, in what can now be seen as a foreshadowing of their Yom Kippur issue, the Review printed a caricature of Dartmouth's President James O. Freedman as Hitler, complete with mustache and stiff-arm salute...
...Democrats delayed casting their votes, watching the electronic scoreboard. They soon realized that Republicans were defecting en masse. All eight G.O.P. Congressmen seeking elevation to the Senate this November voted no. At that point, scores of undecided Democrats rushed into the negative column. Of the 25 Democratic incumbents facing stiff challenges this year, none supported the deal. Eight of the 13 chairmen of the appropriations subcommittees, who usually have great power in shaping the details of spending plans, deserted the Democratic leadership. The final tally, shortly after 1 a.m.: 254 to 179 against the measure. The Democrats opposed...