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Attention, Washington pundits: Those of you who bet that Whitewater would sink three top Treasury officials before you had to write your annual thumb-suckers about Why Presidents Need Summer Vacations lost last week. Treasury chief of staff Joshua Steiner -- ridiculed for questioning the accuracy of his own diary during the Senate hearings on Whitewater three weeks ago -- seemed safe for now. "He's being handled in juvenile court," sneered a congressional G.O.P. staffer discussing the youthful Steiner. "I find it disturbing that he's not being tried as an adult...
...lukewarm toward the Mitchell plan that her husband had endorsed, pointedly preferring the Gephardt proposal. At a private meeting with House Democrats earlier this week on trade issues, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen was asked how much influence he had with the Clintons on health-care strategy. Bentsen held his thumb and forefinger about an eighth of an inch apart, shrugged and steered the conversation back to free-trade legislation. Says a House Democrat: "There is a sense of complete chaos around here...
...male bands; or, like Madonna, they have achieved success as sexy solo divas. But for most of rock's history, women have never been full, chord-crunching, songwriting partners with men in real rock groups. The guys form the Rolling Stones or Guns N' Roses and sing Under My Thumb and Back Off Bitch; the women become the Marvelettes or the Go- Go's and record perky pop ditties...
...found an honest feminist academic -- perhaps the only one in existence -- Sommers reveals the same sloppiness that she criticizes in other feminists. She plays fast and loose with anonymous sources and uses ellipses in mid-quote. She goes to great lengths to establish that the "rule of thumb," which in the 19th century allowed a man to beat his wife with a rod no thicker than that finger, is a recent "feminist fiction." Yet her favorite feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, spoke out passionately against the right of a man to carry out this violence in a speech that Sommers quotes...
Joltin' Joe. Blue Jay Joe Carter is still hampered by a right thumb that was broken in spring training and remains so sore he can't open his car door with it, yet he set a major league record for the most RBIs in April, with 31, surpassing the old mark of 29 that was shared by three players. (Colorado first baseman Andres Galarraga also bettered that mark, with 30 April RBIs.) Carter's 31 ribbies were one more than Barry Bonds, David Justice, Mark Grace, Andy Van Slyke and Howard Johnson had -- combined -- for the month...