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...Trent Lott, like Bill Clinton, learned much of what he needed to know about politics in junior high. But if Clinton appealed to the popular kids and made himself the center of attention, Lott made his way more quietly, by rounding up the strays one handshake and one favor at a time...
...their small hometowns. Virginia Clinton doted on her son so much that she turned over the master bedroom to him. Iona Lott, however, recalls that "people used to say an only child would be spoiled and selfish. And I was determined he wouldn't be that way." She made Trent share everything, including the pony she got him before he was 10, when the family still lacked an indoor toilet...
...Fifth Amendment, declined to provide documents subpoenaed by the House investigation led by Representative Dan Burton of Indiana. In the Senate, Democrats and even some G.O.P. moderates have complained that Senator Fred Thompson badly overplayed his hand when he asked for a $6.5 million hearing budget. Majority leader Trent Lott is already worried that the public sees the Hill probes as witch-hunts; he may, in a deal with Democratic minority leader Tom Daschle, end up shrinking the scope and duration of Thompson's hearings...
This sketchy behaviour is not the exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...
...strict Christian boarding school, which, he later said, "turned me against the hypocrisy of organized religion." At 18 he took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk and heavy metal. With his first two records, Portrait of an American Family and Smells Like Children, Manson quickly built a passionate following. It includes his father Hugh, who says...