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...Doles. The Speaker can't control Dole the campaigner, but he needs to have influence over Dole the Senator in order to push through the extensive collection of spending cuts and tax reductions promised in the Contract with America. So last week the Speaker took control of the legislative stream, persuading Dole to create a task force of House and Senate leaders designed in part to ensure that the Senate majority leader and other moderate Senate Republicans would not unilaterally trade away elements of Gingrich's revolution in the final days of congressional bargaining. The Speaker also anointed himself...
...demands on the president of Harvard University are heavy indeed, and we recognize the time and effort that President Rudenstine invests in his office. The president's endless schedule carries him from lobbying lunches in Washington, to fundraising dinners with alumni, with a steady stream of meetings on faculty appointments thrown in between...
...crowd asked about how to deal with the Pope's visit and the O.J. Simpson media frenzy. "One polluted stream means more than all that," she said. The church setting amplified her shamanistic qualities making her performance a resurrection of sorts. The show was magical without being fanatic...
Whether she was interrupting herself, taking notes, or telling witty anecdotes, Smith's stream-of-consciouness style was thoroughly enjoyable. After she elaborately introduced one work, just as she was about to begin, her mood changed and she read a more mischievous one, "Cowboy Truths." While reading it, she also sang the refrain, exemplifying just how easily her lyrics translate into music...
Intellectualization, the capacity to turn any belly noise or bird's chirp into sane, ordered paragraphs, flowed like a pretty stream through the meadow of Henry Adams' life. So it may still seem to disenchanted literature students who find their way to graduation blocked by The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. The problem is not that Adams prattled but that reasonable, melancholy conclusions about 19th century civilization issued forth at an unvarying gush...