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...Bold Al gets carried away. In December 1995 he infuriated Republicans by phoning the nbc Nightly News to announce a massive telecommunications reform bill in order to guarantee that the White House got credit for it, in the process nearly blowing up the fragile compromise just reached. The same tactic almost wrecked the delicate negotiations over television ratings last June...
...Which might make some sleep easier. Others will be alarmed that it took 42 years of atomic weapons for a sitting president to figure this one out, or that the men who gave us Mutual Assured Destruction are still allowed to consider limited nuclear war a legitimate tactic...
...Apple from Falls, North Carolina in 1980 to pursue a career as a bona fide starving artist. A true writer, Hartley experiences life only to later describe it to friends. He eroticizes New York and almost everything in it, and his humor is his best survival tactic. Hartley is a self-described happy person--"drunk on city life, glad for its free tickets and dollar pizza and standing room...
...institute pioneered the tactic of using constitutional free-speech guarantees as a legal weapon for people claiming they were denied the right to religious expression--a frequently successful court strategy now imitated by other religious-rights advocacy groups. Rutherford's clients have included schoolchildren who wanted to pray over their lunches, a girl who wanted to read her Bible on the school bus and a Hindu who refused jury duty on religious grounds. The group also briefly considered defending Paul Hill, who was convicted of the 1994 murder of a doctor and another man at a Florida abortion clinic...
Defense will have to be the key. And with last year's ECAC Rookie of the Year, goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo, between the pipes, that tactic could just work...