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...Buddhist episode might have amounted to little more than a temple in a teapot were it not for the latest questions being raised about Gore's fund-raising phone calls. Newly unearthed records show that what he described in March as "a few occasions" actually totaled 10 phone-athons during which he reached 46 contributors and tried dozens more. Gore insists he did nothing illegal--although he'll never do it again--and until last week the Justice Department agreed...
...public also recognizes that this administration's misconduct, while not an advertisement for the glory of the American democracy, is rather mild compared to that of past White Houses. Historical scandals such as Watergate or the Teapot Dome had ramifications orders of magnitude greater than the present-day fundraising scandals will ever have. So before my fellow Democrats and I go banging down the door of the GOP, it is worthwhile for us to keep in mind that the last two Republican administrations to reach their second terms have produced scandals significantly more pernicious than the one plaguing Clinton...
Included among them are ornately painted Indian elephants, a cross from Israel, a replica sheriff badge from Albuquerque, N.M., a teapot from South America, a bell from Lebanon and a five-yen coin from Japan with the inscription: Have a soulful, fruitful relationship...
...didn't paint only Tories. He did one memorable portrait of Paul Revere, the artisan-radical, rhyming the smooth, rather inexpressive mass of Revere's head with the silver teapot he is holding...
...else about David Mamet's play The Cryptogram, which opened in Boston last week in a production by the American Repertory Theatre, is very reassuring. A young boy waits eagerly for his father to come home; he never does. The boy's mother is first heard offstage, breaking a teapot. A gay friend of the family's dissolves in guilt over a betrayal. No one seems capable of finishing a sentence or answering a question directly. There is vaguely unsettling talk about a combat knife. The boy can't sleep...