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...proof of this will come later this week when the entire G.O.P. presidential field (from Bob Dole to Illinois businessman Maurice Taylor), the Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate, a bipartisan mishmash of Washington politicians, even Jesse Jackson, converge in Dallas for an unprecedented three-day pander-ama. Each, in his way, hopes Perot will be all ears...
...correction that some economists had been anticipating" (the Journal, April 12). Wall Street and the market are constantly fretting, shrugging off bad news, cheering good news and even looking forward to vacations, as it did a couple of months ago, when it set "records in anticipation of a three-day holiday...
...necessary to use force to liquidate the bandits," Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev advocated storming the hospital where Chechen rebels hold over 1,000 hostages. A defiant Shamil Basayev, the leader of the rebel group, defied Grachev, saying: "Let them come and storm the place." Negotiations in the three-day old crisis have hit a standstill as the 200 rebels holed up inside the building rejected an offer of safe passage to Chechnya or any country willing to accept them. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is on his way to attempt a peaceful resolution, but his chances appear slim. The gunmen...
...recent three-day conference honoring the centennial of Ruth's birthday, Stevens was on hand to see the Babe finally earn a measure of academic respect. Indeed - -with 26 panel discussions ranging from "Whitmanesque Hero" to "What Would Ruth Earn Today?" -- Hofstra University accorded the slugger the same reverence it has given the likes of James Joyce and Bach at similar symposiums. "He would have been pleased," said Ruth's grandson. "He might also have been a little bored...
...crits, those old prunes, scratched their high foreheads at the success of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. This tale of middle-age passion -- in which a roving photographer, Robert Kincaid, has a volcanic three-day affair with Francesca Johnson, an Italian woman who has lived for 20 years as an Iowa farmwife -- was filled with clichas masquerading as erotic eruptions. But Waller knows the secret of romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such...