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...over New Hampshire voters, of course, with his now (in)famous "no new taxes" pledge. Bush's popular vow proved too much for Sen. Robert Dole, who waffled on the same issue, and soon threw in the towel and headed back to Kansas. Nevertheless, Bush later abandoned his most sacred political pledge, a promise whose appeal had rescued him from the snowdrifts of New Hampshire...
...hardly an unmixed one. Unlike its much praised performance during the Persian Gulf war, CNN's pantyhose-to-towel coverage of the Smith rape trial was controversial. The all-news network pandered to tabloid tastes, critics complained, or ignored more "serious" news, or cut away too often for commercials, or invaded the victim's privacy, or tried to guard it too assiduously. Nonetheless, the trial illustrated the essence of CNN: the coverage was live, dramatic, exhausting, messy and irresistible...
...from throwing in the towel, Gorbachev came out fighting, lambasting the leaders of Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine for their declaration of a "commonwealth" to replace the U.S.S.R. Yet in classic fashion Gorbachev managed to combine conciliation with combativeness...
...when a guard was in the room. Steel chains that were never unlocked, save for the 10-minute daily visit to the "toilet," a fetid hole in the ground. Months without baths. Then bathing privileges that forced filthy men to share not only the same water but the same towel, sometimes unlaundered for months at a time. Meals that never varied: bread, cheese and tea for breakfast and dinner; boiled rice and vegetable-something-or-other for lunch. All this savored without benefit of a light bulb. Sometimes without benefit of even a candle. Often alone...
...than Hill alleges Thomas to have been, but they were no less explicit. In study hall, at lunch, and between classes they described how we could have sex. They would come up to me in the locker room after I'd taken a shower and threaten to grab my towel. In class, one of them would always attempt to sit behind me. If successful, he would begin the explicit descriptions in a whisper, and when the teacher had his head turned, begin to rub my back. In the halls they would attempt to pinch me where bosses have been pinching...