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...period in my life," he butted heads with liberal faculty members at several universities before successfully running for Congress in 1984 as a political amateur against a popular incumbent. After a rocky start (he tried bunking in the House gym to save money until he was ejected by Speaker Tip O'Neill), Armey first showed talent as a legislator in 1987 when he won bipartisan support for a bill establishing an independent commission to recommend military bases for closing. He rose so rapidly through his party's ranks that after the 1994 elections, he ran unopposed...
...design their own realistic gardens on an easy-to-use computer grid, dragging and dropping into place any of 800 plants and flowers. Advanced features let users take a 3-D tour of their creations or watch the virtual gardens blossom and fade as the seasons pass. One tip: Don't add water. (Books That Work...
...Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly says. "Standing near people like German Chancellor Kohl and President Clinton touches the Russian idea that they are still a great nation, which is hard to see in day-to-day life." Although Yeltsin easily won public backing from European and Japanese leaders, President Clinton tip-toed around the election issue as much as possible. "Clinton handled the situation very well," Donnelly says. "He stressed his relationship with Yeltsin and the progress Yeltsin has made with reform efforts without overtly saying the communists would not achieve those goals." Clinton and Yeltsin tried to avoid controversial issues...
...roadway (3.5 of which are underground) have been guaranteed by a long series of colorful Congressional benefactors. The list includes Edward Kennedy '54-'56, the senior senator from Massachusetts, former House Rules Committee Chair J. Joseph Moakley of South Boston and former Speaker of the House, the late Thomas "Tip" O'Neill of Cambridge. In the Bay State, these are noble men who have served the interests of their community well. Many say The Big Dig was Tip O'Neill's final salute, his going away present...
...those don't pan out, Jones is also hinting at a Middle East connection. For one thing, he is floating the idea that on the day before the bombing, Vince Cannistraro, the retired head of CIA counterterrorism operations, tipped the FBI to a terrorist attack planned by a Middle Eastern nation, possibly Iraq, against a U.S. facility, possibly the Murrah building. Not quite, corrects Cannistraro, who says the tip came to him on April 19, after the bombing, from a Saudi Arabian source he considered untrustworthy. Although he passed it on to the feds, it was with the warning that...