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WASHINGTON: Be it penance or politics, Bill Clinton is really getting behind the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. While Minority Leader Tom Daschle was throwing a procedural temper tantrum over Republican stalling on the bill Tuesday, Clinton dropped an even bigger bombshell ? by writing to Trent Lott and threatening to call Congress into special session unless the bill gets some hearty October debate...
Polo pros and local patrones describe Villegas as a good-natured man who never lost his temper, even during rough-and-tumble matches. "He just wanted to have fun," says Bart Frye, a patrone. Villegas did have fun with Cummings. She is said to have bought polo ponies from him; a good pony can sell for up to $20,000. She had fun too. By the beginning of this year the pair were often seen on the circuit holding hands. Through the summer, the couple played in matches side by side. In a game still dominated by men, the sight...
...readers of paying $210,000 for them: "It was a big payday for photog Mario Brenna, who stands to make as much as $3 million worldwide." Lured by such sums, paparazzi are resorting to ever more aggressive tactics--sometimes even provoking confrontations with stars in order to catch their temper tantrums on film. "About a year ago there was a real increase in invasive kinds of pictures," says Valerie Virga, photo editor for the National Enquirer, "people really going over the edge to get the picture--climbing roofs, scaling buildings, super-super long lenses into people's backyards...
...when I was working very hard, and I should have been home resting. My marriage wasn't going very well, and it was a difficult time in my life." He says that any medication "was doctor-prescribed. It was no more than taking an aspirin." He insists that his temper flare-ups are over. "I had to learn to keep myself together--to understand that drinking excessively can get you into trouble." He says he and his ex-wife "have to stay in communication" because of their 18-month-old daughter Jasmin. "We have to do what we have...
...summer of 1985, directly before the CUE Guide went to press, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, ordered editors to delete or temper criticisms of several instructors...